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Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? [message #36007 is a reply to message #35824]

Mon, 04 August 2003 09:05

fburton
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Registered: June 2003

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In article <3F2E7C5F.731392A1@noaa.gov>,
Paul van Delst <paul.vandelst@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Yep - you're right. Filenames should always be lowercase (on unix systems at
> least...dunno about windows.)

Surely the most "humane" default is to preserve case in filenames
(and program identifiers), but have case-insensitive matching. The
arguments for case sensitivity in dealing with natural language
text don't apply to programming languages or interactions with the
filesystem, do they?

Francis

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		Who's up for breaking IDL? By: timrobishaw on Sat, 02 August 2003 14:10
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 04 August 2003 10:06
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: James Kuyper on Mon, 04 August 2003 09:46
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 August 2003 09:38
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 04 August 2003 09:06
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: fburton on Mon, 04 August 2003 09:05
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 04 August 2003 09:00
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 August 2003 08:58
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 04 August 2003 08:39
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 04 August 2003 08:39
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 04 August 2003 08:34
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 04 August 2003 08:31
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		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: R.G. Stockwell on Mon, 04 August 2003 07:12
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 August 2003 06:58
		Re: Who's up for breaking IDL? By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 August 2003 06:52

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