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Re: Website
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:16:07 GMT
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jsproat@NOMORESPAMio.com
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Frank Filz wrote:
> Why is case insensitivity evil? What good comes from having case
> sensitivity? I have yet to see any good coming from case sensitivity in
> a file system or a programming language.
2 reasons come to me right away:
Case sensitivity contributes to a faster and less-buggy environment. If you
need to match a string against a set of possible matches (e.g. looking for a
file in the directory, or looking for a variable in a 15,000-line source file)
then case sensitivity is the fastest, simplest, and easiest way to go.
Case sensitivity also reduces ambiguity while preserving flexability. If I'm
loading a file named "Makefile" amongst { "makefile", "Makefile", "MAKEFILE"
}, then I know exactly which one I get.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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| (...) That one I'll give you. Then again, I use a development which supports case-insensitive text matching. Which is definitely a double-edged sword. (...) Nah. You only get to store one of those files in a single directory. And if you're looking (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Why is case insensitivity evil? What good comes from having case sensitivity? I have yet to see any good coming from case sensitivity in a file system or a programming language. (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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