On 11/24/2009 06:20 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On 11/24/2009 12:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I am not aware about any technical reason for disallowing underscores.
I'm not aware of any technical reason either. It is a personal preference, I think it makes the packages have a cleaner naming scheme.
As you say, it's a matter of personal preference => insufficient rationale.
Accordingly, I have never pushed for it to be a requirement that _ not be used when upstream uses it in its naming, but if the PHP SIG asked for us to amend the PHP naming guidelines to exclude it, I would consider it.
Then they should better elaborate their rationale.
I for one am opposed to any "transliteration", which isn't motivated by strong technical reasons, because they only add further confusion.
Ralf