• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Nope. Completely different.

    Case is often used to distinguish scope. Lowercase is local while uppercase is public. “Name = name” is a pretty standard convention, especially in constructors.

    There is a ubiquitous use case in programming. There is not in the file system.

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      2 months ago

      My point is not about how case is meant to be used my point is that it is very easy to make a mistake that is difficult to spot. I think it makes a lot more sense to the case insensitive, and force different names to be used.

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      2 months ago

      This is the first time I’ve seen uppercase denoting scope. Usually it is done with a “_” or “__” prefix.

      Casing styles usually mean different identifier types.

      snake_case or pascalCase for functions and variables, CamelCase for types, UPPER_SNAKE_CASE for constants, and so on.

      If we want to apply this to file systems, you could argue something like: CamelCase for directories, snake_case for files, pascalCase for symlinks, UPPER_SNAKE_CASE for hidden files.