On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 22:59, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/08/2011 06:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> You don't have two houses on the same street with the same number, but >> different number placement. > > Your argument is based on the idea that lower and upper case versions of > a letter refer to the same thing. Actually, they are two separate > characters, and always have been, so distinguishing between them is only > logical. > Not true. Computers treat the two cases as separate characters because there is no mechanism of having different versions of the same character. However, humans treat the two cases as two forms of the same character. The question then reduces to: should the yum interface be designed to be comfortable for a computer to interface with, or should the yum interface be comfortable for a human to interface with. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
