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RE: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:11 PM
>>To: Mellman Thomas; cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: RE: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mellman Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Mellman@icn.siemens.de] 
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:06 AM
>>
>>
>>> It's just that I like to use split() in perl or $1, $2, $3 in 
>>> awk.  To say it's "easy" to handle blanks with Unix is ... 
>>> well, to avoid anything that might inflame, let's say, academic.
>>> 
>>> Incidently, I haven't heard anyone explain what purpose the 
>>> blank in "mount v2" serves.
>>
>>It's easier to read than "mountv2".


Could be.  How about mount_v2?


>> Plus it confuses perl programs.


Hey!  I used to hate perl too until I had to study a good perl program.

The thing about perl (not to go off-topic, or anything), is that it's the only interpretive language that I know of (except for Java, which I don't know very well) which has both 1) structured data and 2) pointer-optimized accesses.

So there!


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