From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] Re: Capitalized source file names
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:21:14 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnihfjfa.ut5.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101226203711.GA10137@melkinpaasi.cs.helsinki.fi>
On 26-12-2010, Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> wrote:
> Traditionally, OCaml source files have been named to start with
> lowercase letters, even though they define modules whose names begin
> with uppercase letters: the definition of module FooBar goes in
> fooBar.ml. This has always seemed unintuitive to me.
>
> I'm not sure if this convention has been forced in the past, but
> nowadays the entire toolchain seems to support capitalized filenames:
> you can put the definition of FooBar in FooBar.ml, and everything just
> works. This seems much more natural.
>
> As things stand, is there any reason (besides uniformity with existing
> code) why one shouldn't use capitalized source file names nowadays?
>
Now, I try to use module name as file name (i.e. uppercase version).
This is much more intuitive. But there is nothing to enforce here, this
is just a matter of taste.
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-26 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-26 20:37 [Caml-list] " Lauri Alanko
2010-12-26 21:09 ` Philippe Wang
2010-12-27 9:44 ` David Allsopp
2010-12-26 21:26 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2010-12-27 9:44 ` David Allsopp
2010-12-30 12:52 ` Florent Ouchet
2010-12-26 23:21 ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=slrnihfjfa.ut5.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org \
--to=sylvain@le-gall.net \
--cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).