Proposal for a standard for D library naming

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Tue Sep 19 06:22:12 PDT 2006


Gregor Richards wrote:

> Another reason for the D prefix is for bindings.  Many bindings will 
> have package names similar to their C library names - so similar in fact 
> that the names could overlap if there was nothing to uniquely identify 
> the D one.  And if the names overlapped, it would need to break the 
> naming convention, which would defeat the whole purpose of having a 
> naming convention in the first place :)

Yes, this is a very valid reason. I used a d suffix, for same reason.

--anders



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