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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Duplicate identifiers in a single namespace
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:15:08 +1000
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On 29/09/2024 10:15 pm, Don Y wrote:
> How does (e.g., Windows) tolerate/differentiate between
> multiple *identical* identifiers in a given namespace/context?

What makes you think that they do?

Whenever I inadvertently try to duplicate file names, the second file 
name gets longer.

> And, what *value* to supporting this capability?

None.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney