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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

• 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.