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a, A, b, B?
A computer will spit out A, B, a, b
See also: ASCII chart
So if someone tells me to look for a file amongst a long list, I need to look in two different areas- the uppercase and lowercase areas.
I get why it's more technically correct to differentiate, but from the perspective of a human user, it's a pain in the ass.
I'm with you, and not just from a "human" perspective. Also when writing small programs meant to be relatively lean/simple it can be a problem when the user expects it to find a particular file regardless of its case (will it be
DOOM.WAD
ordoom.wad
?Doom.wad
?Doom.WAD
? ... guess it'll have to be[Dd][Oo][Oo][Mm].[Ww][Aa][Dd]
and import some globbing library as extra dependency... that, or list the whole directory regardless its size andlower
/upper
every single filename until you find a matching one...)Oh jeez, I hadn't even thought about capitalisation in the file extension. That would be especially confusing if extensions are hidden- the user would be presented with two files that look exactly the same.