Re: [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2007, 23:52 UTC
Message-ID: <17942.56641.562796.690812@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704061637280.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Friday, April 6, 2007 at 16:41:08 (-0700) Linus Torvalds writes:

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>On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
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>> Just playing the devil's advocate (I prefer the clean filesystem of Unix), the
>> argument the case-folding fans make is "well, taxes and TAXES is the same
>> word, right?".
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>And "polish" and "Polish" is the same word, right? AnD i cOuLD wRite 
>THInGs LiKE thiS, aND it WouLd bE eaSiER tO REad, RiGHt?
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>Case *does* matter. Anybody who claims otherwise is a total idiot.
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>And no, e e cummings is not an example to the contrary. Quite the reverse. 
>Even people like e e cummings (known for his lack of capitalization) 
>actually became well-known exactly because he made capitalization *matter* 
>by flouting the rules (the same way he also flouted the rules of grammar 
>and other word usage!).

And, just as you rearrange r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r to get grasshopper, you would get new filesytems that idiotically, and just as arbitrarily, considered them the same.

Bill