Thanks for the reminded. I was confused at a certain point thinking that - was 
not a 
special character.... I hate this system.

Stef

On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

>> So maybe if Squeak renamed "Collections" similarly to what Pharo did,
> 
> I don't mind if you commit the package under a new name. I wasn't
> aware that Squeak has a different package structure for collections.
> 
>> MC allows a dash in a package name and treats it as one unique name?
> 
> The important thing is that the name of a package is not a prefix of
> another package (like the package 'Collection' is a prefix of
> 'Collection-BTree'). The actual code that tests for this is:
> 
>    PackageInfo>>category: categoryName matches: prefix
>        ^ categoryName notNil and: [categoryName = prefix or:
> [categoryName beginsWith: prefix, '-']]
> 
> In Pharo people seem to avoid the use of dashes in package names.
> 
> In Seaside we extensively use dashes as a tag to differentiate
> tests/examples and platform dependent code while keeping the package
> name the "same": http://code.google.com/p/seaside/wiki/PackageNaming
> 
> Lukas
> 
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