"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > http://d-programming-language.org/version.html#PredefinedVersions > > Why is the "linux" version identifier all lowercase?
Because it's from the time when D/Phobos policy was to expect users know where an identifier was borrowed from in order to know how to spell/capitalize it, instead of being internally consistent. Seriously. I remember NG discussions a while back about why the "linux" identifier was all-lower, and that's pretty much all it amounted to, much like the pre-2.054 std.string. Well, a combination of that and the language's irritating inability to distringuish between an "off" version and a mistyped version (although this particular argument hinged on the assumption that porting C to D is a more important use of D than writing new D code). Ok, so I'm biased on the matter ;)
