Re: Changing the case of a filename?
Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- Subject: Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- From: Angela Brett <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:16:59 +1200
Let me also say, that a case-insensitive file system is a brain-dead
idea, and that whoever was responsible for it back in the mid-80's
should be tortured with a resource fork applied repeatedly to a
sensitive part of his anatomy.
Okay, this is kind of getting off the topic of Cocoa development...
but I think that a case-insensitive file system is a great idea. The
average not-technically-minded person (who is surely the kind of
person the Macintosh is designed for) doesn't want to be trying to
remember whether they had a capital letter in their file name, or
which of several otherwise identical filenames in a folder is the one
he/she wants to open. Perhaps a case-sensitive file system is helpful
when using a case-sensitive development environment, but not in any
other situation that I can think of. Personally, I don't particularly
like case-sensitive programming languages either (although I'm still
going to use them of course, it's not that big a deal) because it can
be annoying trying to remember which variables/class names/methods
etc have capital letters, and where. This is helped by the fact that
there are usually conventions concerning whereTheCapitalsAre, but I
still don't particularly like it.