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WORD, Word WoRD.... Sorry to say I tend to use case sensitivity as a filter for me offering support to other developers. I'm not willing to find time for peopl
by rob_c 5y ago
WORD, Word WoRD....
Sorry to say I tend to use case sensitivity as a filter for me offering support to other developers. I'm not willing to find time for people who can't get their head around "turn on/off caps lock". You don't do it in professional writeups or applications (and I hope not in a CV) so don't pollute my filesystems or codebases with that madness.
- jodrellblank 5y agoI’m not talking about caps lock. I can get my head around case sensitivity, I can use it, it’s worse, I don’t want to have to use it anymore than I want to use filesystem permissions in octal even though I can. Having tools take chmod u+r is easier and doesn’t change the filesystem at all.
- rob_c 5y agoSorry, not sure I see the point here other than computers provide human representation of binary data? If the mapping is non trivial then unless you're careful you end up breaking basic consistency between input and stored data hence the weird issues with mangling the unicode chars. If the mapping is trivial theres almost nothing to discuss. If the mapping is many to many you're going to have a bad time unless your consistent with your use of the maps. Then the fun is broken mappings where you get data loss due to incorrect many to one and one to many mappings. There are times when caps matter, I e. code and filesystems are human readable so should not be arbitrary, but searching these for instance makes sense to be insensitive when needed (perhaps even default)