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by vic20forever 23 days ago
Say whaaat? VB (v.3 through v.6, at least) wouldn't compile if you misspelled the name of a function or subroutine.
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VB had case insensitive name resolution.
Yes, but that was the standard behavior in DOS & Windows world (not including C/C++). We thought that case sensitivity was the broken behavior ;)

I was referring to the parent's statement "If a method or function call is similar enough to an existing one or a common one from other languages, to just have it silently use that." A compiler that substitutes a different function for the one I specified because it "knows what I really want" is horrifying.