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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:03


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
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