Case sensitivity when linking

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/28/2017 11:43 PM, Lewis wrote:
> I wonder though, would it make sense to make differing case in import statements
> a compiler error? And possibly give it a similar switch to optlink for ignoring
> case if need be? I hit this error because of a typo in one of my import
> statements, but the error message I got back from the linker didn't do a good
> job of pointing out my mistake (as is understandably true for most linker
> errors). For a simple and easy-to-catch typo, it seems like we could provide a
> better error message by catching this in the compiler  :)

The best practice recommendation is to use all lower case in import names. This 
means you won't get any surprises porting to/from Windows file systems. Some 
people insist on using mixed case import names, and that's their choice. After 
all, D is a systems programming language.

I'd also stay away from using non-ascii characters in import names.