Re: TIDs case insensitive?
Re: TIDs case insensitive?
- Subject: Re: TIDs case insensitive?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 13:03:00 +1100
On 7/3/01 11:00 AM +1000, Chris Nebel, email@hidden, wrote:
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Allow me rephrase. I'd never make TIDs universally case-insensitive; I'd
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make them respect considering/ignoring case. While I'd agree that
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always-senstive is more useful than always-insensitive, I think that being
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switchable is more useful than either.
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However, you raise an interesting point: if I made this change, some
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scripts would break, because they'd be relying on the case-sensitive
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nature of TIDs even in the absence of a "considering case" block. (Your
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script would work either way, because you put the relevant bits inside a
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"considering case" block.) In the interests of consistency with the rest
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of the language, I'm inclined to say "the heck with it" and make the
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change anyway. Not any time soon, mind you, so don't panic yet, but you
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might want to get in the habit of using "considering case" now if you
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actually care.
Wouldn't it be preferable to just set the default to the way it is? That
might save you a lot of email in the long run ;-)
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden