On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Jeff Hobbs wrote:

>  Donald G Porter wrote:
> > Keith Vetter wrote:
> >> Case sensitivily is a nightmare which doesn't benefit anyone.
> >
> > ...and yet a whole world of package authors still will not adopt the
> > obvious solution of naming their packages with exclusively lowercase
> > characters.  Go figure.
> 
>  FWIW, the Tcl style guide recommends camel-casing for package  
>  names.  Of
>  course, many of the popular packages that have unpredictable casing
>  existed before that was written (for the 8.0 timeframe).

     So, just make the package commands do everything case- 
insensitive.  Do you really think anyone trying to do:

package require bwidget

doesn't mean

package require BWidget

??

     Just make the whole damn thing case-insensitive.  Screw the  
package authors.  You can even let "package names" return the name the  
author specifies without manipulation if they cry about it, but let  
the rest of the package commands not care.  Even as a package author  
I've been bitten by this stupidity too many times to count.

"Was it Tile or tile?  TreeCtrl or treectrl?  Bwidget, BWidget or  
bwidget?" ... open console and try names 'til I get it right.  What a  
load.

D

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