Hi Dominik. You misread me; I "must" have "Visual Studio" installed, because of 
something that has nothing to do with Nim...

_Now that I have your attention_ ... I have a question relating to your book, 
"Nim in Action" (I haven't finished it yet; I might have more questions later). 
I hope it's OK if I ask it here, and I also don't think it's important/general 
enough to ask as a separate forum post.

In section 5.6.1, "Choosing a name", you say:

"A package's name is very important." (No question about that)

"It needs to be as short as possible"

Why? Is that your personal preference, or is there some actual technical reason 
for this?

If I may present a "counter example", I could not get the Nim Notepad++ plugin 
to work, because the plugin name was _too short_, and therefore eventually 
overlapped an "official" plugin name, which then "won" over the (too short) 
non-official plugin. Or at least, that is my interpretation of what happened on 
my system.

I don't see how having a clear, comprehensible, unique package name (which is 
the opposite of "as short as possible") could possibly be a bad thing. If there 
is a technical reason, I think you should mention it explicitly, because it's 
not obvious, at least not to me.

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