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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:33:04AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
> > Ok, *now* I'm just disgusted.
> > 
> > WARNING, to anyone remaining who might expect sane behavior: indexes on
> > * format fields are case insensitive, too.
> 
> And why would you expect otherwise?

20 years of programming experience in 5 other languages.

You know, I *know* that that's not the common profile of filePro
programmers.  But I'm not apologizing for *that*.  And I don't think it
unreasonable to expect that if such a lookup is smashing case, that it
ought to say so.  And I don't remember seeing anywhere that it does.

> [...]
> > No.  The problem is that I continue to expect sane behavior out of
> > filePro despite all the continuing evidence to the contrary.
> 
> filePro's behavior is perfectly sane.

I think that's probably arguable, since Mark has (successfully, IMHO
:-) already argued it.

> > You asserted that "smi" would locate a record with a '*' field
> > containing 'SMITH'.  It turns out you're right, which is *completely*
> > unconscionable.
> 
> Not to me.

Clearly.  ;-)

> [...]
> > I'm giving up now. I really don't feel the need to be involved with
> > a package that's designed so differently from every other procedural
> > programming on the planet that it allows me to look foolish once a week,
> > saying "oh, they couldn't possibly be so dumb as to have made it work
> > like *that*; that's crazy stuff.
> 
> What is "foolish" about "comparisons are case insensitive"?

That's slightly less foolish than "lookups are case insensitive", which
is what really set me off.   But, please: I don't have a manual right
to hand: is *any of this case smashing* documented in the manuals?

Cause ghod knows *I* don't remember seeing it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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