On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:26:21AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > [1] Interestingly enough, '-' was chosen for Debian package names > instead of '_'; I would guess this is becuase a number of Debian's > original founders and policy writers had some influence from Lisp. Or > maybe they just realized it's easier to type :)
I suspect it's just to free up '_' as a stronger separator, for example in package filenames. I personally always prefer '-' over '_' if it is available, and this might be the majority view. All languages I can think of that use '_' as a separator do so because '-' is already taken as an operator. I guess a statistical analysis of unix filenames might show which separator is the most popular :-) Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
