string vs String

[Bill Baxter]

Colin Huang wrote:
> Janice Caron Wrote:
> 
>> And do you suppose that this would cause no name clashes at all with
>> anyone's apps? I imagine it would cause /more/. Anyone who's ever made
>> a string class has probably called it "String". To me, the lower case
>> s not only ensures fewer name clashes, but also makes it "feel" like a
>> primitive type (which it sort of almost is - I mean it's just an
>> array, not actually a class or a struct).
> 
> Agreed :)
> 
> On an unrelated note, module names starting with uppercase letters (like those in Tango) have always turned me off -- feels too Java-ish to me :P (I remember reading somewhere in the forum that this is done for good reasons, though)

Tango names _Packages_ with with capitalized words, but not the modules. 
  This allows you to have a module that's the same name as a package. 
Like "String.string".  "String" is a package/directory and "string.d" is 
a file in that directory.

--bb