Re: unbroken naming conventions

[David Van Horn <dvanhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:11:08 -0400, David Van Horn wrote:
> > I will go with 
> > (srfi :n) unless I hear different preferences from implementors.
>
> Beware that ":" isn't normally allowed in a file/directory name under
> Windows. Although the mapping between library names and files (if any)
> is up to an implementation, it might be simpler to avoid characters
> that tend to be special.

Thanks for the warning.  The "n" convention seems safest from the 
special characters perspective.

Is it important to the implementors that the naming convention avoid 
such characters?

David