April 21, 2010
12:10 p.m.
Paul Moore wrote:
the natural reaction for any but the most careful of programmers would be to say something like hasextension(fn, '.txt') without thinking.
That's why I think that case-insensitivity should be the default. Most of the time, people don't use case alone to distinguish between different file types. It's only in rare situations such as .c vs .C that the case matters, and in those situations, you know that you're dealing with something special. In any case, I don't believe it has anything to do with the *filesystem* on which the file happens to reside. As long as the filesystem is case-preserving, an application can regard file extensions as being case-sensitive or not as it pleases. -- Greg