Re: Changing the case of a filename?
Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- Subject: Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- From: Mark T <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:59:02 -0400
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.
I have to say that I agree. I can't think of a single situation where
the usefulness of a case-sensitive filesystem would outweigh the
drawbacks. What possible reason could you need for saving multiple
files in the same directory with identical names, save for the
capitalization? Names can be 255 letters long. Use different names!
The only substantial argument for case sensitivity that I've heard is
for backward compatibility with programs that are too "brain-dead" to
manage without it.
Mark T.