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Subject: Re: Enumerated string comparisons
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected] core-talk" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:08:05 -0700
On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Therefore I see a case for some very limited sort of dwimming, namely:
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> (1) Case-insensitive matching.
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> (2) Identifying underline '_' and space ' '.
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> 
I'm more in favour of completely strict matching as is now the case (but with really descriptive diagnostic messages on failure).   My opinion is that 'dwimming' results in making things less understandable because it gets too hard to remember the rules and thus databases and such get harder to comprehend.

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Eric Norum
[email protected]






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Re: Enumerated string comparisons Johnson, Andrew N.
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Re: Enumerated string comparisons Michael Davidsaver
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