Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!)

[Blake Winton]

On Mon, 22 May 2000 15:30:21 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>Neil Hodgson wrote:
>>    While I /know/ that Unix file names are case sensitive, that doesn't stop
>> me from mistyping them. This is something Windows and Macintosh do right -
>> removing a cause of error for no real limitation in functionality.
>The Macintosh solution to the problem of mistyped file names
>is not to require users to type file names at all, other than
>when creating the file. That has nothing to do with case
>sensitivity!

Aha!  Perfect!  We should re-write IDLE, so that for any given variable,
you only type it once, and then whenever you want to use it after that,
you click and drag it to the appropriate place!  Genius!  ;)

Later,
Blake.
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