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  • From: ""Jimmy Yen(顏孝杰)"" <jimmy AT yen.tp>
  • To: Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: SM-Grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Spell naming
  • Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:33:38 +0800

Geoffrey Derber wrote:

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

Is there a conclusion for this already? Personally I prefer lowercases too but I can do with either way. I'm feeling oblidged to fix later if I do it wrong, so I'd better get it right in the first attempt :) Thanks!





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