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		saghm on Oct 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Wine works 101 I think GP just meant that it can be ambiguous which one is meant (especially in the context of headlines like this); I'd imagine that even if it were always cased WINE it would still be pretty easily associated with the drink.

shiomiru on Oct 11, 2022 [–]

The only annoying part of the name is getting beverage-related search results when looking up error messages; but upper-casing it would probably not help much there.

account42 on Oct 11, 2022 | [–]

Then they should have renamed it to LPWINEEX to give the name the full WINAPI treatment.

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