On Monday, August 18, 2014 8:45:58 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> It is a convention, but it isn't required anywhere or guaranteed. You can 
> currently count on package names being ASCII.
>

Do you expect the ASCII part will eventually change too? If I can count on 
ASCII, that means I can pretty much count on the fact that foreign 
languages such as Chinese and Arabic, that do not have capitalization, will 
never be used for package names. And if that's always going to be the case, 
then it seems like the capitalization thing may as well just be a rule and 
not a convention. Of course, even if such languages are eventually 
supported, it could still be a rule with an exception for such languages.

I guess what I am saying, from the other way round, is if it's not going to 
be a rule, why even bother with the convention?

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