Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:46:58 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: <7sd407hclqd092brj1cgqmlk4r129bcqb4@4ax.com> References: <4dffe2ea$0$57121$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <96dvubFalpU1@mid.individual.net> <3qOdnSBTduuqsp_TnZ2dnUVZ_rOdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7Qrvczazr82YckO5XW8Vtw"; logging-data="1373"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Bb7r55NJ4GaUm69na0zqYFsz+YbgJcgw=" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UCjIGehTPVtTX4aTUdAva5ly3JY= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5534 On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:06:38 -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >On 6/22/2011 10:16 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >... >> Being perfectly correct is not good enough when playing with >> others who may well have other priorities. When a program and a user >> conflict over interface issues, I think that the user should be the >> one to prevail. > >When dealing with a single-user program that makes sense. > >Of course, javac and java are both used by many users. How do you >propose to let "the user" be the one to prevail, when there are >thousands of users with different backgrounds and interface expectations? Easy on this point. Accepting case-insensitive filenames as matching when there is no ambiguity is more helpful to more users than throwing an error is. While I am at it, I find the Java error for not finding a program to be rather verbose for little use. It does not inform much more than Bad command or filename. or 'q' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. do. >I find the case insensitivity of MS-Windows file names very >counter-intuitive. Does that mean MS-Windows should be changed so that >Patricia-as-the-user can prevail? Maybe it should. But even if I did not agree, I would not argue against your expectations by calling them wrong. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko