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Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
  >> Mixed case package/module names are avoided because there needs to be a
>> 1:1 correspondence between file names and package/module names, and not
>> all file systems are case sensitive (like FAT32 and NTFS, for a couple
>> widely used examples).
> 
> As I said elsewhere in the thread, other FS _are_ case sensitive, and thus
> you need to be aware of which case you use in either case, rendering the
> argument moot. Early on in D history, I encountered several cases of
> modules being saved on Windows, then not working on Linux with their
> intended module names due to this. And this can only happen if the Windows
> programmer typed in a file name with upper case letters, even though the
> module name was all lower case.
> 

I believe Walter's point is that "all package and module names are lower 
case" is a simple rule that will help us avoid this problem, given that 
everyone does their best to adhere to the rule.  I don't know how much 
it matters, since I've never run into the problem myself.  But I just 
tried it, and it shouldn't be hard to track down the problem based on 
the compiler's error messages.  Not a big deal either way, it seems.