Hello!

Vladimír Čunát <[email protected]> skribis:

> On 24 July 2011 18:11, Sander van der Burg - EWI
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Convenience, hmm... Personally, I find it confusing if the name of this 
>> emulator would be: visual_boy_advance or something like that, while the 
>> package on the internet is named: VisualBoyAdvance . Similarly, a lot of 
>> Java packages use naming conventions like this.
>
> I agree on this point - I respect the convention but I find it
> unnecessary.

The point of the convention is to honor the principle of least surprise:
users can blindly type ‘nix-env -i mplayer’ or ‘nix-env -Ai
visual_boy_advance’ without thinking any further.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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