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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Apr 6, 2007, 23:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704061637280.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <86mz1lt8bg.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

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!).

		Linus