On Monday, 11 April 2016 at 00:51:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
It's an artifact of history. When this was first introduced, Walter's intent was to match the casing used in gcc preprocessor definitions. Since that time, we've standardized on capitalization for everything, but 'linux' lives on. I would like to see 'Linux' introduced for consistency and to avoid errors like yours (a bug lived in Phobos for a long time because of this) while maintaining 'linux' for backwards compatibility.
Thanks, that makes sense. It would be nice if Linux could be introduced. I'll just have to remember from now on. Thanks again!
