[Developers] MQL bug WRT case sensitivity

Kurt Bollacker kurt at spaceship.com
Mon Mar 30 23:28:32 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:57:54PM -0700, Warren Harris wrote:
> 
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Kurt Bollacker wrote:
> 
> > Are there other good choices?
> 
> I see that for the IPA example, you're storing this stuff under the  
> "alias" property. Is there any way you could store it as a new  
> property of type rawstring? That would get around the case- 
> insensitivity issue. 

I could, but then the usability in the client would be reduced, and
I'd be splitting aliases between /common/topic/alias and some new
property.  I think a "Right Model(tm)" would be to have the aliases be
in their own language (e.g. "/lang/ipa"), which would specifically be
case sensitive.

> I don't think there's any chance we're going to move to
> KurtsIdealWorld any time soon. :-)

Real estate is cheaper there nowadays. 				Kurt :-)




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