From: Bill Lear Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:52:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Distinguish branches by more than case in tests. Message-ID: <17942.56641.562796.690812@lisa.zopyra.com> In-Reply-To: On Friday, April 6, 2007 at 16:41:08 (-0700) Linus Torvalds writes: > > >On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> 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?". > >And "polish" and "Polish" is the same word, right? AnD i cOuLD wRite >THInGs LiKE thiS, aND it WouLd bE eaSiER tO REad, RiGHt? > >Case *does* matter. Anybody who claims otherwise is a total idiot. > >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