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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:54:03PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Never mind.  I always forget that "eq" doesn't mean "is equal to" in
> > > > filePro.  My bad.
> > >
> > > Sure it does.  However, "is equal to" refers to case-insensitive "equals".
> > 
> > I guess it depends on what your definition of "equal" is.
> 
> I'm sure there are more times in filePro that you want case-insensitive
> than you need case-sensitive.

Almost never, ever.

> > You know, *just once*, I'd love to hear "well, that was probably not
> > the best way we could have {defined,implemented} that, but we're stuck
> > with it 40 MLOC later."
> > 
> > Just once.
> 
> I've probably said something like that over the years, but I don't recall
> any at the moment.  ;-)

Good save, Ken.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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