Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote:
> > Still, it doesn't make sense that "some people incorrectly use
> spaces
> > instead of hyphens" implies that we should convert hyphens into
> spaces
> > (which then get converted into underscores). If we're going to
> > standardize, and one of the two choices is right while the other one
> > is wrong, then we should standardize on the right usage.
> >
> > The exception to this is if we want to make the hyphen an illegal
> > character, and you seem to have presented no argument for this other
> > than the fact that it is done in other, completely different,
> > situations, for reasons which have no applicability to this
> situation
> > ("service=drive-through" is not going to be mistaken for "service
> > equals drive minus through").
> >
> > And I even presented a precedent of my own, which is a much much
> > closer analogy than C/Perl/Pascal/etc variable names: SGML name/id
> > tokens, which consist of letters, digits, periods, hyphens,
> > underscores, and colons (for namespaces).
>
> OK, I think we have provided ample arguments for both sides. Only
> three of us have debated this point in the last few hours and I'd
> really like to hear other people's thoughts on this so that we can
> gauge if there's a consensus for whatever.
>
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It makes sense to me to replace spaces with underscores, but to leave hyphens
as-is. So, my vote is for service=drive-through.
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