Re: Namespace pollution
Clearly my original proposal should have included an exception for
traditional Unix commands (and probably for POSIX-mandated short
commands).
Oliver Elphick:
> why allow a comma?
The punctuation characters I specified are (I believe) precisely those
which are not metacharacters for the shell and file-manipulating
programs, I believe. If someone knows of a significant program for
which `,' in a command name would be troubling, please speak up.
Brian and Bruce complain that `single common dictionary word' is unclear
and perhaps too restrictive. Bruce says:
> I also don't think it defines the collision space well.
I think it defines it well; the problem is people with commands like
`display' or `box' or whatever. It seems to me that the criterion is
exactly whether the word is common. Perhaps `dictionary' should be
left out of the definition.
Does anyone have a better description of this class of name ?
Ian.
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