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  • From: Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: @naboo.radiusco.com
  • Cc: SM-Grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Spell naming
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:32:20 +0000

Jimmy Yen(&#38991;&#23389;&#26480;) wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is there any general rule for spell naming to follow? I'm writing a
> spell for FreeWnn and I'm wondering if I should call it freewnn instead.
> I browsed the grimoire and it seems that most spells are following the
> name of the tarballs. Redhat-like distros also seem to follow the rule,
> while Debian and Gentoo are using lowercases. Which one should I follow?
>

I personally prefer lowercases, simply because I wonder how many times
I've tried casting a spell, to get an error message about spell now
found, simply because I typed the spell name in lowercase when it had a
capital letter in it. One of the nice things about our setup, we could
name the spell whatever we want to, even "thelooserspell" or something
really obnoxious without any relavence to what the spell even installs,
as long as we set up the SOURCE= to the tarball name, there won't be any
problems at all. No granted, it's generally better to name it something
so people can tell what the spell installs.

If it was up to me, I'd prefer to see all spells named with lower cases,
but after looking at the perl-cpan section, I realized that was a lost
hope, so I'd be willing to settle for all new spells in lowercase.

Geoff


ps, sorry about breaking the thread, my mail client went nuts and wouldn't
send,
so I had to copy the message into my webmail access, which of course no longer
had the original email to reply to.




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