Case sensitivity when linking

Lewis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 29 17:50:51 PST 2017


On Sunday, 29 January 2017 at 08:55:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> The best practice recommendation is to use all lower case in 
> import names. This means you won't get any surprises porting 
> to/from Windows file systems. Some people insist on using mixed 
> case import names, and that's their choice. After all, D is a 
> systems programming language.
>
> I'd also stay away from using non-ascii characters in import 
> names.

I agree that's a good general practice. Even so, I'm curious if 
there are any reasons against the compiler catching an error like 
this. Seems like it'd only prevent errors.


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