From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] [PATCH] don't downcase names before looking them up in the alias to person map, since keys in that map aren't downcased.
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:55:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226292778-sup-1719@entry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226088207-sup-2545@sgoldmanlinux.tower-research.com>
Reformatted excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of 2008-11-07:
> We shouldn't downcase names before we look them up in the alias to
> person hash since the keys of that hash are case sensitive. This
> brings up a more philosophical question of whether keys in that hash
> SHOULD be case sensitive. What does it mean to have two aliases
> "Steve" and "steve"?
Certainly, either everything should be case sensitive, or everything
should be case insensitive. The problem here was that creating aliases
was case sensitive, but looking them up wasn't.
Personally I'm fine with case-sensitive aliases. Applied, thanks!
--
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
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2008-11-07 20:04 Steve Goldman
2008-11-10 4:55 ` William Morgan [this message]
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