Comment on D or d come on

Feyter@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  that’s not how language works though, in human language (i know this can be confusing) d and D are the same letter just in different forms.

  It’s one thing to have case sensitivity in programs doing data manipulation, that makes sense because you don’t want the program to accidentally use the wrong files without supervision.

  But when you have an interactive prompt you know what you’re doing, you can see if you entered the wrong directory, and you’re generally going to be working in directories that you have yourself organized.

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doesn’t tab completion solve this if there are no alternatives with matching case? sounds like a PBKAC

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• lemmonade@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You could also say that down should not complete to download since those are completely different strings and you shouldn’t expect one to get you the other.

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  • Feyter@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorry, down is a substring of download I don’t get your point either?

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Substring is not string.

      If they were interchangeable, then “D” & “d” should be too.

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      • Feyter@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        down matches down* because * also includes empty string. Also download matches down*

        D matches D* but d is not matching D* because D is a different character than d.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On Windows filenames are case insensitive at least usually, some people are used to that. But that is poor design for so many reasons, Turkish I being one of them.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now take Android. Files are case-sensitive yet you can’t create 2 files with same name if they only vary in case.

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    • Reil@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One of the most pointlessly annoying things I’ve had to deal with was trying to move a process made for Linux onto a Windows MINGW/cygwin-type environment where one of the scripts would generate “.filename” AND “.FileName” files. :|

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    • oleorun@real.lemmy.fan ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL, thanks. I wonder why they chose to do it this way.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They cater to windows users that are used to the quirks of their broken system.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People want their computers to magically know what they want these days. :)

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  • PupBiru@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “magically know what they want” aka occasionally set you and your files on fire

    i prefer not fire

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