Hi, I'm wondering what the rationale was for not allowing capitalized variable names (and uncapitalized type names and constructors). I can only think of two arguments, and IMHO both of them are bad: 1. Enforces a naming convention. Fine - but my view is that this doesn't belong in the language definition (it belongs in the user's coding standards). I get annoyed, for example, that when I write code that manipulates matrices and vectors, I can't refer to the matrices with capital letters as is common in the literature. And to anyone who says that it's good to enforce naming consistency, I have this to say: Any language that requires me to learn about category theory in order to write imperative code should treat me like an adult when it comes to the naming of variables as well. ;-) 2. It makes it easier to write the compiler. I don't think I need to explain why this is bad... I imagine that someone is just itching to "sort me out". Do your worst! ;-) Thx Martin