From: emery@mitre-bedford.arpa (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Better filenames?
Date: 21 Jul 93 14:21:04 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Jul21092104@goldfinger.mitre.org> (raw)
The use of a trailing underscore in a filename to indicate a package
specification is an abomination first developed by DEC, and should be
rejected in any "open context" such as reuse repositories.
In particular, with the Ada9X decision to support trailing underscores
in identifiers, the filename "foo_.ada" would be ambiguous by this
convention, representing either the specification of "foo" or the body
of "foo_".
Frankly, the only good thing I have to say about the 9X decision to
support trailing underscores is that it makes the DEC naming
convention clearly ambiguous.
dave
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