On the second point, I think it may be a good idea to disallow upper case. I presume that Eli and Matthew would have good recommendations about this?
Jay On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Carl Eastlund <[email protected]> wrote: > Yay! > > Carl Eastlund > > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That's a typo in the docs. Numbers are allowed. >> >> Jay >> >> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Carl Eastlund <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University >> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay >> >> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 >> > -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
