Re: minor technical: are variable names case insensitive? [OK?]

Fred Zemke wrote:
> Annex A.3 Keywords
> It says that keywords, except for 'a', are case insensitive.  There is no
> corresponding statement about variable names.  Are they case sensitive
> or not? 

Yes - everything is case sensitive (variables, strings, IRIs, prefixed names)
except for keywords.

I've added in A.7:

"Matching is case-sensitive except as noted above for keywords."

> (You might also address whether IRIs are case sensitive, though I expect
> this issue is handled by the spec that defines IRIs).

Yes - all issues to do with IRIs are devolved to the IRI spec.

> 
> Fred Zemke
> 

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