On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Paul Allen Newell <pnew...@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> [...]
> I wish the Chicago Manual of Style would weigh in on url name
> conventions (not to mention typography in code). Not that I'd agree with
> them, but it would be a good starting point.

One of the problems with style relative to urls is that urls are
intended to be human readable in an international context.

The Chicago Manual of Style is USA-English centric.

urls themselves were invented within the same large linguistic
context, and in spite of intent, reflect the context. Case sensitivity
as a distinguishing/non-distinguishing factor in names is a case in
point, where mapping features of one language/culture to another does
not produce mechanical equivalence. Tell Toto we're not in Kansas any
more, etc.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't be surprised by
code that used to work and doesn't any more, nor should we be
surprised by seemingly trivial errors being the blockers. Especially
when they used not to really be errors.

Joel Rees
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