MHLoppy to Programmer [email protected] • 12 days agoisInHell = 'true'fedia.ioimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1659arrow-down14file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•12 days agoYou stated the reason yourself. Those are different values and matching in a case-insensitive manner is more work under the hood.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•12 days agoWe do plenty of stuff for human consumption. Computers work for us, not the other way around. Insensitivity should be the default. It’s okay to give options. I’m not saying take that away.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•12 days agoHumans have to make it do the work. And that’s how Mr; DROP TABLE makes his money.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-212 days ago✋ Case insensitive filesystem 👉 Case insensitive file sorting
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•12 days agoFor some reason we decided that a lot of formats written by computers and read by computers would use ASCII encoding instead of raw data. Making a json or XML deserializer case insensitive would just make it slower for almost 0 benefit.
You stated the reason yourself. Those are different values and matching in a case-insensitive manner is more work under the hood.
We do plenty of stuff for human consumption. Computers work for us, not the other way around. Insensitivity should be the default. It’s okay to give options. I’m not saying take that away.
Humans have to make it do the work. And that’s how Mr; DROP TABLE makes his money.
✋ Case insensitive filesystem
👉 Case insensitive file sorting
For some reason we decided that a lot of formats written by computers and read by computers would use ASCII encoding instead of raw data.
Making a json or XML deserializer case insensitive would just make it slower for almost 0 benefit.