Damnation!
Albert Wagner
alwagner at tcac.net
Mon May 22 19:45:43 EDT 2000
This won't work. It will simply cause a fork in development. It's a
one-way street. There is more information in case-sensitivity. The
people of the case insensitive fork can easily convert everything to
upper or lower case. But then the information is gone and cannot be
reconstructed.
Hamish Lawson wrote:
>
> If case insensitivity was introduced, I propose that there
> should be a command-line switch to revert to case sensivity for
> backwards compatibility (my own preference would actually be to
> keep case sensitivity as the default and have a switch to make
> it case-insensitive if desired).
>
> Hamish Lawson
>
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