Re: i (was: Summary of Package Overlaps)

[Roman Hodek <rnhodek@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

> All file names with a single character and also most of the file
> names with two characters are probably name space pollution.
> 
> A few exceptions might be good, e.g., for utilities which always
> used a single character. Probably `w' and `[' fall into this
> category.
> 
> What do others think about this? If people agree, we should work out
> a policy change.

I think single-char-names are evil... the possibility of name clashes
is too high. It should be policy not to use those names, except for
some binaries that are traditionally called like that ('w' and '[').

Roman


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