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One of the real potential benefits of this product is that it combines a set of otherwise separate tools. However, it is important that it doesn't end up looking like a set of separate tools cobbled together.
Yet another area where this is apparent is where some tools use case-sensitive naming, others don't.
I believe that case-sensitivity has absolutely no place in an analytic set of tools like this. It's simply never human-friendly.
All case-sensitivity gives you is the ability to have two things in the same scope with the same name, only differing by case. That's never been a good idea, and is a result of lazy coding in the past, particularly from Unix/C backgrounds.
https://blog.greglow.com/2018/12/04/opinion-case-sensitivity-is-a-pox-on-computing/
Case-preservation is critical (i.e. remember the case that something is defined with and always return that), but case-sensitivity should not be apparent to users.
At present, there is a mix amongst the tools on how case-sensitivity is handled. This needs to be cleaned up.
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