[WEB400] Re: Graphics not displaying

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich III wrote:
> ...
> Seriously, I've never understood the rationale behind allowing foo.bar,
> Foo.BAr, FOO.bAr and FoO.BAR as 4 different files. Sure, maybe long ago
> there was a performance or ease of programming issue that required
> case-sensative compares, but in today's world it's just silly. It's also one
> of the things that bugs me about Java, who in their right mind designed a
> new, modern, feature-packed language and made it case sensitive?

Offhand, I can think of one practical consideration - different code 
pages. If you want to have case insensitive file names along with 
national language character sets, how do you take accented 
characters into account? Before answering, consider that some 
characters in certain languages exist in lower case form but not 
upper case (or vice versa).

Actually, these days, most new programming languages continue the 
tradition established by C decades ago and have case sensitive names.

(RPG IV has case insensitive names for one reason only - the SQL 
preprocessor for RPG III at the time upper-cased names. RPG IV had 
to do the same for compatibility.)

Cheers! Hans