Is VB Really Case Insensitive?
- by Otaku
I'm not trying to start an argument here, but for whatever reason it's typically stated that VB is case insensitive and C languages aren't (and somehow that is a good thing).
But here's my question: Where exactly is VB case insensitive? When I type...
Dim ss As String
Dim SS As String
...into the VS2008 IDE the second one has a warning of "Local variable 'SS' is already declared in the current block". In VBA VBE, it doesn't immediately kick an error, but rather just auto-corrects the case.
Am I missing something here with this argument that VB is not case sensitive? (Also, if you know or care to answer, why would that be a bad thing?)
EDIT:
Why am I even asking this question?
I've used VB in many of it's
dialects for years now, sometimes as
a hobbyist, sometimes for small
business-related programs in a
workgroup. As of the last 6 months
I've been working on a big project,
much bigger than I anticipated. Much
of the sample source code out there
is in C#. I don't have any burning
desire to learn C#, but if there are
things I'm missing out on that C#
offers that VB doesn't (an opposite
would be VB.NET offers XML
Literals), then I'd like to know
more about that feature. So in this
case, it's often argued that C
languages are case sensitive and
that's good and VB is case
insensitive and that is bad. I'd
like to know A) how exactly is VB
case insensitive because every
single example in the code editor
becomes case sensititive (meaning
case gets corrected) whether I want
it or not and B) is this compelling enough for me to consider moving to C# if VB.NET case is somehow limiting what I could do with code?
