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. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
