Tango quibbles - please write tickets so we can track them
Alexander Panek
alexander.panek at brainsware.org
Mon Sep 17 08:09:45 PDT 2007
Stewart Gordon wrote:
> "Bruce Adams" <tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:fclbdv$1ih5$1 at digitalmars.com...
> <snip>
>> Strictly speaking its configurable on linux too. Just use a case
>> insensitive file system like NTFS. In the linux case its also
>> bonkers. In case it wasn't obvious I think the point was that
>> distinguishing module names using case alone is a bad idea.
>> Especially, if you want to be portable. Either qualify the names
>> or put them in a different sub-directory / namespace.
>
> Unless obfuscation is your goal, in 99% of cases you shouldn't
> distinguish the names of things by case alone anyway. See the example
> here:
>
> http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml
>
> Stewart.
Tango uses uppercase modules for D modules, and lowercase modules for C
modules, to explicitely state "This is C binding code". It's just
cosmetic [, but consistent, which is good].
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