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Re: Why ban underscores?
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Bengt Richter |
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Re: Why ban underscores? |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Apr 2021 03:05:23 +0200 |
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Hi,
On +2021-04-04 17:05:57 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
>
> > Indeed, underscores were explicitly banned in 2014 (commit
> > 25083588). Why?
> >
> > Where's the advantage in renaming the following packages from
> > their canonical names?
>
> While I was not involved in this decision, I think it's desirable to
> standardize on a single hyphen-like character. Otherwise, it is likely
> that people who prefer "_" over "-" will start using "_" in newly added
> package names, which could lead to a proliferation of undesirable
> diversity in our choices of hyphen-like characters. Then, we'd all have
> to remember when typing a package name: "is this one of those packages
> that uses underscores instead of hyphens?"
>
> Mark
>
I note that underscore is not one of the
safe 73 characters mentioned in rfc2049.
Maybe related?
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter