On Jan 29, 2014, at 21:51 , Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
C, I'm not sure. Looking at the symbol index and glossary, I'll venture a guess: COMPILER-MACRO?
Nope. You missed this one!
Does “modern mode" ring a bell? :)
case sensitive case conversion? Yeah, it's mighty quirky, but it's a finite amount of brokenness that can be patched over easily and relatively portably,
Yeah. But go back and check the CLL thread on the introduction of “modern mode” by Franz :)
quite unlike the pathname horror, that reminds me at a much smaller scale of that description of PHP: "A fractal of bad design”.
This I hadn’t heard :) Very nice.
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