[NNTP] Re: Command names

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed Oct 27 04:41:17 PDT 2004


Ken Murchison said:
>> It makes things more readable. Do we really want unbalanced parentheses and
>> quotation marks in command names?
> Absolutely not.

Phew :-)

> 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.

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