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I AGREE, CASE DOESN'T COMMUNICATE ANYTHING. .... PARDON?

• lisper 8y ago
  File names aren't used for communication, they are used to identify files, i.e. they are identifiers. Case-senstivity is never the right thing for identifiers. If you find yourself needing to distinguish two identifiers that differ only by case, you're doing something wrong.
  • geofft 8y ago
    You keep saying "never" despite having given a counterexample two comments ago. Besides, the point of a filesystem isn't to have opinions on right or wrong. It's to store files.
    • lisper 8y ago
      No, I didn't. I gave a counterexample where capitalization matters in English. It does not follow that this distinction ever matters in file names. In English the sentence, "The president of the company is rich," has a fundamentally different meaning than the sentence, "The president of the company is Rich." But when naming files, or choosing identifiers of any sort, if you have two distinct identifiers whose difference hinges only on capitalization, then you've chosen your identifiers poorly. In other words, the fact that capitalization actually matters in English on occasion is a bug, not a feature.