Regan Heath wrote:

> 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.

You would probably love Mac OS X then...

Paths like /System/Library/Frameworks :)

--anders

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:03:05 +0100, Anders F Björklund <afb@algonet.se> wrote:
> Regan Heath wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> You would probably love Mac OS X then...
>
> 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

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)

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