TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (05/16/89)
Having worked for some time on a system where upper/lower case made a difference and, say, "Readfile" is different from "readFile" I will plead vociferously that you may use upper/lower case distinctions for readibility purposes, but please please please don't have the case matter in determining whether two file names (or other identifiers) are the same or different.
wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (05/16/89)
From article <890515201747.744118@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>, by TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL: > Having worked for some time on a system where upper/lower case made a > difference and, say, "Readfile" is different from "readFile" I will > plead vociferously that you may use upper/lower case distinctions for > readibility purposes, but please please please don't have the case > matter in determining whether two file names (or other identifiers) are > the same or different. Don't worry, it's not & won't be that way. Neither HFS (Macintosh, and by translation, AppleShare) nor the new ProDOS (as of GS/OS) filesystems distinguish between cases. The case matters only when creating or renaming a file. As you say, for readability... now, there are people in the Unix world who would argue voraciously in the other direction... but that's another story. -- Scott Lindsey |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air Claris Corp. | About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or dead.