C locale

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Sep 27 21:31:42 PDT 2013


On 9/27/2013 7:50 PM, "Luís Marques" <luis at luismarques.eu>" wrote:
> It really is not my intention to start an argument over something
> inconsequential, but I understood your point was: "´linux´ is the
> only OS identifier that is not capitalized because that's what's
> consistent with gcc". But if the other OS identifiers are not
> consistent with gcc then I don't understand your point.

If you're looking for consistency, there isn't any consistent consistency. It's 
all just a bikeshed issue. I explained why it's "linux", and for better or 
worse, it is not worth all the grief & disruption changing it.


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