From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 10:36:52 CST
In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212200857150.26491-100000@localhost.localdomain> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>If you'd drop the nonsense arguments against it, we might get somewhere.
>As it is, there isn't a single person who has come up with a reason to
>make the entry case-sensitive, and since it was NOT in the draft as it
>appeared at last call, then adding it now requires at least some cogent
>argument for doing so. "Because Henry says so" doesn't fit that
>requirement.
The "good reason" is that existing software does it that way. If there
were some great benefit in breaking existing software (like it would
enable useful additional functionality) then we might consider doing it.
But there isn't.
And, as far as Henry is concerned, what he says is usually good sense. He
has, after all, implemented systems. He should know.
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