RE: Re: Uppercase and lowercase in filenames

Martin Tomes writes:
> Perhaps we could stop silly arguments about the way the world
> is and get back to making Subversion
> work well for everyone, no matter what file system they
> choose/have to use.

While I applaud this sentiment, I just couldn't resist pointing
out that your choice of examples was unfortunate. You write:

> In fact, my colleague has
> just pointed out that if you write an English word with
> different capitalisation (e.g., Word and
> word) it's meaning does not change and a good file name is
> chosen to convey meaning.

Unfortunately, "Word" is the trademarked name of a popular
word-processing application, while "word" is a common English
term for a lexical unit in natural languages. Of course, the
rules of English require that "word" be spelled "Word" when
(for example) it appears at the start of a sentence or in a
title.

All of which just goes to prove that these arguments are (as
you pointed out) silly.

-- Michael Chermside

This email may contain confidential or privileged information. If you believe you have received the message in error, please notify the sender and delete the message without copying or disclosing it.
Received on Mon Jun 21 17:10:15 2004