Here's what I think. I've had enough trouble trying to convince n00bs that e-mail addresses are not case-sensitive, which, at least so far, remains true. I see absolutely no reason or value to making commands, directory paths, file names, etc. case-sensitive. It may be "cute" but it invariably leads to confusion even within an OS that supports sensitivity. Frankly, I'd be happier if R was not case-senstive either. Maybe it's just me, but I don't have the patience to recall whether to type >>getNativeSymbolInfo and Extract.data.frame, or >>Getnativesymbolinfo and extract.Data.Frame, or some other combination. (relax -- I'm just picking a couple example commands w/ capital letters in them) Then again, if it were up to me, I'd ban spaces in file and directory names, too. ~_^ Carl
case sensitivity, my 0.02 worth
1 message · Carl Witthoft