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unbroken naming conventions William D Clinger (22 Jul 2008 04:28 UTC)
Re: unbroken naming conventions David Van Horn (22 Jul 2008 14:20 UTC)
Re: unbroken naming conventions Matthew Flatt (22 Jul 2008 14:36 UTC)
Re: unbroken naming conventions Grant Rettke (22 Jul 2008 15:37 UTC)
Re: unbroken naming conventions David Van Horn (22 Jul 2008 15:59 UTC)
Re: unbroken naming conventions Matthew Flatt (22 Jul 2008 16:39 UTC)
Re: unbroken naming conventions Abdulaziz Ghuloum (22 Jul 2008 17:39 UTC)

Re: unbroken naming conventions David Van Horn 22 Jul 2008 15:59 UTC

Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400, David Van Horn wrote:
>> I will go with
>> (srfi :n) unless I hear different preferences from implementors.
>
> Beware that ":" isn't normally allowed in a file/directory name under
> Windows. Although the mapping between library names and files (if any)
> is up to an implementation, it might be simpler to avoid characters
> that tend to be special.

Thanks for the warning.  The "n" convention seems safest from the
special characters perspective.

Is it important to the implementors that the naming convention avoid
such characters?

David