[NNTP] Re: Command names

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Nov 4 21:01:31 PST 2004


Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>> Ken Murchison said:

>>> I guess the only additional char (beyond what you've outlined) which
>>> sticks out as potentially usable for keywords is '_'

>> I think we only want one of '-' and '_'. I don't greatly care which,
>> though I think the former is slightly preferable.

> I don't care enough to make a big issue out of it.  I'll let the rest of
> the WG (you and Russ) decide which one(s) will be used.

I've been engaging in a completely irrational war against underscores for
years, so I'm quite happy with a dash.  :)  (Really, I don't much care one
way or the other, and can't see omitting '_' causing any real problems for
anyone.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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