[NNTP] Re: Command names

[Kai Henningsen]

clive at demon.net (Clive D.W. Feather)  wrote on 08.11.04 in <20041108142508.GB89554 at finch-staff-1.thus.net>:

> 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.

And it's this thing. There's no conflict.

> I only used hyphen in the first place because we didn't used to permit
> hyphens in extension labels.

There should not be a syntactic difference here. That way lies madness.

MfG Kai