Re: [whatwg] several messages about HTML5

[Gervase Markham]

Michel Fortin wrote:
About that, I would like to suggest that the current text be changed to 
reserve class names starting with a dash "-" for private use. That way 
that we would have a pool of class names which are guarantied to not be 
taken over later when new predefined class names are added. 

Surely it would make much more sense to have all the predefined class 
names start with a dash? After all, XHTML5 is not yet standardised, 
whereas people have been using all sorts of random class names for years 
- but, I suspect, mostly without a leading dash.

This is similar to the C/C++ thing of having reserved symbols like 
__LINE__ start with an underscore.

Gerv