D and file names

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:10 +0200, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:05:39 +0200, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk>  
> wrote:
> 
> > It appears that DMD barfs on files with - in the file name.  Why?
> 
> Do you mean, why doesn't DMD try to work around the problem automatically  
> (e.g. by substituting/removing invalid characters in the module  
> identifier)? The error message answers your verbatim question.

- is a perfectly valid character in a file name, well on Posix compliant
systems anyway.  The question is why D, aping Java, imposes restrictions
when there is no need.

> "test-file-name.d: Error: module test-file-name has non-identifier  
> characters in filename, use module declaration instead"

The real irritant for me is that the file in question has one function,
main,  there is nothing to do with modules going on here.

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