Case-sensitivity

Tinderbox's host OS is case-sensitive as is the app in the majority of cases. Notable exceptions are export codes and agent query special arguments. In both cases there is a general TB usage convention to intercapitalise such words - lower case start and capitals at concatenated word boundaries. Intercapitalisation helps distinguish different Tinderbox code types.

Conversely, attributes are case-sensitive: IsInside, Isinside, isInsdie and isinside would all be treated as different attributes by Tinderbox if forced to guess. Of the four styling the first is recommended, the second less so and the last two are deprecated to avoid user or app confusion as to purpose when using in code.

To help illustrate this, consider a fictional 'insideness' state - 'is inside' - as expressed through the major code types, noting that:

• ^isInside(arg)^. An export code: intercapitalised plus the carets indicate this is export code. (This is also a real export code)
• #isInside(arg). A special query argument. The opening hash characters is a give-away plus intercapitalised styling. (This isn't a real argument - though #inside(arg) does this function).
• IsInside. An attribute - opening capital plus intercapitalisation. The styling of the words would also tend to imply in Tinderbox usage that this would be a Boolean type, true/false attribute. (This is not a real system attribute).
• isinside(arg). An action operator, all lowercase. This would likely be the internal analogue of ^isInside^, though the case insensitivity of the later codes means export and action codes tend not to share a name. (This is not a real action operator).

Other areas where case sensitivity has an impact are in searching (queries & find dialog) and sorting (containers). By default:

• new (agent) queries are case-sensitive but that state can be toggled by a tickbox on the agent's create/rename dialog and via the AgentCaseSensitive attribute.
• the Find dialog opens with case-sensitivity set 'on' but this can be toggled via a tick-box on the dialog.
• containers sort case-sensitively by default, i.e. letters sort by character number with A-Z sorting before a-z. Container sort has controls both via note/agent create/rename dialogs and via the Sorting group of system attributes.

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