[NNTP] Re: Command names
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Nov 8 06:25:08 PST 2004
Ruud H.G. van Tol said:
>> Since this was our own, recent, invention I'm going to alter it to
>> "MODE_READER"; we can consistently use underscores wherever we need to
>> join two separate words into one.
> Why can't that <401-response-extension-label> remain "MODE-READER"?
Because we're permitting (in theory) an extension called MODE-READER. Using
an underscore to represent a space costs nothing and prevents a potential
confusion in the future.
I only used hyphen in the first place because we didn't used to permit
hyphens in extension labels.
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