Yay! Carl Eastlund
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a typo in the docs. Numbers are allowed. > > Jay > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Carl Eastlund <c...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Currently (the latest nightly build), the names of Planet 2 packages are > > restricted to use only the characters a-z, A-Z, _, and -. The current > set > > of Racket collections, on the other hand, uses a-z, 0-9, and -. Planet 1 > > also has several packages using 0-9. We need to add digits to the set of > > valid names if we want 2htdp, algol60, planet2 (itself!), r5rs, and r6rs > to > > be "package-friendly". I know if I were to release a package named after > > ACL2 somehow, I'd be hard-pressed to figure out what to do with the "2". > > > > Planet 1 packages and Racket collections also don't use A-Z (with one or > two > > exceptions on Planet). In theory, we could disallow those characters and > > gain compatibility with case-insensitive mediums such as the default Mac > OS > > X filesystem. I'm not particularly attached to this second proposal, but > > since it leads to potential errors I thought it was worth bringing up. > If > > we leave both cases in, we at least need to make sure programs that run > on > > Windows and Unix don't break on Mac due to package names conflicting on > the > > filesystem. > > > > Carl Eastlund > > > > _________________________ > > Racket Developers list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > > > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 > >
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