On Sunday, 24 December 2017 05:18:14 UTC+11, Tim Peoples wrote: > I've noticed a somewhat common practice of people naming their github > repositories with a "go-" prefix (and then, of course, subsequently dropping > the prefix in the actual package name) -- yet a similar naming scheme doesn't > seem to be commonplace among many other languages. >
I believe the zeitgeist originated with JavaScript. > > Is this recommended somewhere? If so, where? > It is not recommended for your package’s repository or directory name to differ from its package declaration. > > Conversely, is it explicitly discouraged? Yes, for the reasons above, it’s confusing, also it’s redudant for the same reasons go programmers do not start interface declarations with a capital I. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
