Creating *many* files.

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Wed Nov 20 14:48:48 UTC 2002


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 Andreas.Raab at gmx.de wrote:

> > > The File was B3DPrimitiveVertex-texCoords.st colliding with
> > > B3DPrimitiveVertex-texCoordS.st, as I found out.
> > 
> > Now who said that case-sensitive filesystems were superfluous? ;-)
> 
> Ah, but you see this is a conceptional mistake - texCoordS and texCoords
> should have never be named that way and if selectors were case insensitive (as
> they should) I would have never made the mistake of naming the methods that
> similar.

Probably you would reject my "but lower case code looks ugly" argument 
with your "intelligent tools can handle that" argument. So I won't try to 
argue that ;-)

But the same would hold for variables. That would mean you could never
name a variable "time" when there is a class Time. Even if there wasn't a
class Time at the point you wrote that code, but it is filed in later. We
have a nice pseudo-name-space for temps now, identified by the lower-case 
first letter. How would you handle that?

-- Bert




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