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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:01:31 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter i
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Rob Pike wrote:
> Let me put it to you this way: the first letter of a sentence
> is capitalized. As Doug said when we talked about this,
> 'the' isn't capitalized either, but we capitalize it at the
> beginning of a sentence to aid the reader.

The counterargument is that a proper name such as
Rob is capitalized the same no matter where it appears.
Further, "Foo" and "foo" designate two distinct
functions which can both exist in the same context,
so for clarity the exact name should be used.