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Mainly formatting.

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Nathaniel Beaver
2015-09-11 19:27:35 -05:00
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@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ and the first-person plural objective pronoun ("us").
.. Talk more? E.g. Rob/rob, Job/job, Lot/lot, Miami Marlins vs Miami marlins, Target sale vs target sale, Scrabble/scrabble, drake/Drake
It also provideds more possibilities for filenames,
It also allows more possibilities for filenames,
and makes filename comparisons simpler and faster
because they don't have to occasionally convert
to uppercase or lowercase.
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ to uppercase or lowercase.
http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html
However, there is no shortage of opinions that case-sensitive filenames
However, there is also no shortage of opinions that case-sensitive filenames
-- and even case-sensitivity in general --
was a bad decision.
@@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ but such restrictions do not apply to filenames.)
In any case, both Linux and `Windows use null-terminated strings`_,
as do other modern operating systems.
.. ``` TODO: remove this hack to fix vim's syntax highlighting bug
.. _rationale for using a null-terminator: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418708/whats-the-rationale-for-null-terminated-strings
.. _Null-terminated strings do have some drawbacks: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365
.. _such as storing strings of arbitrary length: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html