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

On Friday, April 6, 2007 at 16:41:08 (-0700) Linus Torvalds writes:

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

quoted

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!).

And, just as you rearrange r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r to get grasshopper,
you would get new filesytems that idiotically, and just as arbitrarily,
considered them the same.


Bill