From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-10-19T00:32:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19379] Re: Constant names in 1.9

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:19378] Constant names in 1.9"
    on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:16:27 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:

|When Ruby makes the tIDENTIFIER/tCONSTANT test, it looks to see if the  
|first letter is upper case using
|
|   ISUPPER(tok[0])
|
|which eventually calls
|
|  ctype_test(c, ONIGENC_CTYPE_UPPER);

And its definition is

    (rb_isascii(c) && ONIGENC_IS_ASCII_CODE_CTYPE((c), ONIGENC_CTYPE_UPPER))

Basically Ruby's case sensitivity (except for regular expressions)
works on ASCII region only, mostly because we've followed Tim Bray's
advice at the past RubyConf (2006?).  I was told that case sensitivity
is sometimes locale dependent.  I don't think the semantics of a
program should depend on locale.  Tell me if I'm wrong.

							matz.