December 08, 2004 Re: [patch] updated reserved version list | ||||
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Posted in reply to Regan Heath | Regan Heath wrote:
> Agreed. My vote goes to any of the following:
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> 1. all lowercase
> 2. capitalise first letter
> 3. all uppercase
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> in that order, I find #3 uglier than #1 and #2. I think #1 is slightly better in that it's slightly less of a pain to type.
You would probably love Mac OS X then...
Paths like /System/Library/Frameworks :)
--anders
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December 09, 2004 Re: [patch] updated reserved version list | ||||
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Posted in reply to Anders F Björklund | On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:03:05 +0100, Anders F Björklund <afb@algonet.se> wrote:
> Regan Heath wrote:
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>> Agreed. My vote goes to any of the following:
>> 1. all lowercase
>> 2. capitalise first letter
>> 3. all uppercase
>> in that order, I find #3 uglier than #1 and #2. I think #1 is slightly better in that it's slightly less of a pain to type.
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> You would probably love Mac OS X then...
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> Paths like /System/Library/Frameworks :)
I've noticed, specifically /System/Library/StartupItems (I work for a company writing mail server software which runs on as many OS's as we can manage).
Regan
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Posted in reply to Stewart Gordon | On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:58:32 +0000, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thomas Kuehne wrote: > <snip> >> 2) adds the identifiers "Unix", "darwin" and "IA64" (used by gdc-0.8) > <snip> > > Did anyone particular decide "darwin" should be in lowercase? FTM, does anyone have any idea why "linux" is lowercase, unlike the others? > > Stewart. > I suspect it has something to do with Windows being case insensitive and vice-versa (like with almost the SOLE exception of X, everything in linux seems to be lowercase) -- "Unhappy Microsoft customers have a funny way of becoming Linux, Salesforce.com and Oracle customers." - www.microsoft-watch.com: "The Year in Review: Microsoft Opens Up" -- "I plan on at least one critical patch every month, and I haven't been disappointed." - Adam Hansen, manager of security at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (Quote from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1736104,00.asp) -- "It's been a challenge to "reteach or retrain" Web users to pay for content, said Pizey" -Wired website: "The Incredible Shrinking Comic" |
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