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From:
Zefram
Date:
April 3, 2012 06:21
Subject:
Re: namespaces that differ only in case
Message ID:
20120403132116.GA3198@lake.fysh.org
Ricardo Signes wrote:
>                               resolving conflicts, then about fixing PAUSE to
>treat permissions case insensitively.

Eeek!  That would not be fixing anything, that would be breaking it!

Perl package and module names are case-sensitive.  That Perl doesn't
adequately encode (mangle) these names for case-incapable filesystems
is a bug.  We should not pander to that bug; we should fix it.

-zefram
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