[asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

[Michael L. Young]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ira" <ira at extrasensory.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 8:11:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.
> 
> 
> Given that many of the users were not programmers and didn't likely
> grow up in a case sensitive world I'd also vote for case
> insensitivity. I fall into that category, I grew up with dBase,
> Clipper and VB and case issues get me all the time when I program in
> C.
> 
> Allowing case insensitivity does not stop someone from using case
> consistently and While I guess there could be a reason why you'd want
> to use the word hash in the forms hash, Hash and HASH and have them
> be 3 different items, I'm guessing that the people trying to get
> their feet wet moving from Asterisk-Now to Asterisk would be confused
> to say the least if someone did that in example code.

While true that most users are probably not programmers, most people administering Asterisk would be system / network admins, correct?  System admins and networking admins are used to working in environments such as Linux where variables and file names are case sensitive.

If someone is moving from a GUI interface to CLI, then they would/should know that case sensitivity is important and therefore the change shouldn't pose a problem.

Just some thoughts in regards to the concerns brought up.

Michael L. Young
(elguero)