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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Sproaticus wrote:
> 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:
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> 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.
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.
> 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.
Nah. You only get to store one of those files in a single directory.
And if you're looking at more than one directory, then you get the first
one found.
Steve
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