From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-07 20:55:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20619edc.0306021018.6ee4dd09@posting.google.com> <1054649187.11497@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <20619edc.0306031034.6a2f5f25@posting.google.com> <1054666439.685312@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:56:19 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.88.62.202 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1055044528 219.88.62.202 (Sun, 08 Jun 2003 15:55:28 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 15:55:28 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38806 Date: 2003-06-08T15:56:19+12:00 List-Id: "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message news:1054735867.264510@master.nyc.kbcfp.com... > The only legitimate reason I've seen is that insensitivity > to case allows people to alter the case of identifiers to > conform to local conventions regardless of how they are > declared in their source packages, in the same way that they > can change formatting conventions. How about that reason (a bit boiled-down, of course, but the same idea): I'm not an experienced Unix guru so I have to try and see if a command works. So I type something like: x/yz - doesn't work. So I type X/yz - still doesn't work. So I call in an expert who tells me that it should be x/Yz (not X/Yz which I've also tried). When questioned *why*, the answer is a shrug and a simple reply "that's Unix"