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Re: Halloween Lego Design Contest Reminder and Update
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:57:56 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.build, Matthew Miller writes:
> > [...] And the server appears to be completely case-insensitive. [...]
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> Boo hiss, extremely evil!
Ok, since this is to some extent an appropriate newsgroup...
Why do you see case insensitivity as evil? I find case sensitivity evil.
I have seen very little need to case sensitivity.
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| (...) First, to be case-insensitive is to create a non-1-to-1 (and therefore non-invertible) mapping of characters which destroys the usefulness and expressiveness of 20% of the character set domain (about 1/3 of the typically usable characters). (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
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