DASL ID 3 Apr: casesensitive

• From: Jim Davis <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>
• Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:41:31 PDT
• To: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
• Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980416104131.00815900@mailback.parc.xerox.com>

Suggest that for now, we drop the 'casesensitive' element (e.g. in 8.7.5)
until we come up with a principled way to deal with it uniformly, e.g. in
eq and lt as well.

I don't know much about string comparisons, but it just seems possible to
me that there might be values other than T or F for case-sensitivity.  I
mean, are there any languages with more than one case?  Or where a
case-sensitive comparison differs for some glyphs?  That's another reason
to hold off.

See also my note about the representation of boolean values, in general.

Received on Thursday, 16 April 1998 13:43:07 UTC