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- >From uw-beaver!uw-vlsi!mprvaxa!ubc-vision!utai!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse@nike.UUCP Wed Nov 19 04:57:50 1986
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 86 02:46:16 EST
- From: der Mouse <uw-beaver!ubc-vision!mcgill-vision!mouse@nike.UUCP>
-
- > Please, if you support case-dependence, don't give the "mixed case
- > filesystems" class of arguments. The only two arguments you really
- > have are (1) it is a "feature" (however dubious) that you can create
- > Makefile and makefile as separate files in the same directory, and
- > (2) Unix does it this way.
-
- I think everyone arguing over case sensitivity is missing something.
- Why treat letters specially? For example, UNIX treats a and A
- differently just as it treats = and % differently. I see no reason to
- restrict filenames to [a-zA-Z0-9] and a few special characters like .
- and -; and given that uniformity case folding makes as much (or as
- little) sense as folding 0123456789 onto !"#$%&'()* (to pick a
- particularly silly example).
-
- I would say that (1) is not particularly useful, but it can be nice to
- be able to create files named D.mcgill-X04T2 and D.mcgill-X04t2 in the
- same directory. This is less of an issue, though; it's just as easy to
- make a program use base-36 as base-62 or base-126.
-
- der Mouse
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