Secondly, to address the idea of it being good for beginners, I don't see how pissing off the beginners is a good idea, regardless of whether or not they learn to type like something other than a chimp.
Beginners are pissed off at programming almost 100% of the time. They hate indenting. They hate trying to figure out other people's bad naming conventions and magic numbers. One more thing won't hurt a beginner. As a beginner, I know, and I'm happy to practice good principles... even if it makes things slow going for a little while, or is another thing that annoys me (which it doesn't).
Ambiguity between names when the only difference is case is not going to help anyone, and certainly not the beginners.
Eh? David's example was that, because of his bad practice it could cause him issues. If he didn't use the bad practice the case issue would be a mute point. Plus, why is it a bad thing for beginners? If a beginner can't create proper variable names in the first place he has more problems with his programming than case conflicts. Variables should have well chosen names.
If you can't type the way you want to type only because of your own errors, that's your problem, not the compilers.
Again, eh? It's a computer program designed to help. Who cares whose problem is it.
Sure, it would enforce case consistency, but it would also allow coders like myself to tie themselves in knots with their ambiguous variable names.
Easy solution- just learn to create proper variable names.
So yes, I would vote for the option - but I'm not going to get hung up on it.
Same.