On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > On 24/11/2012 10:19, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Diego, remember the original point. It is obvious that a common >> syntax is more coherent and thus easier for the world to understand. >> Having that would be a good thing. It is also obvious that the ruby >> syntax is problematic in the general case. > > And the Ruby syntax has been devised to suit the _installed commands_ > for the most part: ruby18 and ruby19 are _the commands you run_. >
Makes sense to me. We are (almost) doing the same for python, but we can't have periods in USE flag names. The underscore is a convenient replacement. I suppose we could use a hyphen like php does, but I don't think it is worth the effort at this point.
