Re: [Caml-list] Capitalized source file names

[Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info>]

> As things stand, is there any reason (besides uniformity with existing
> code) why one shouldn't use capitalized source file names nowadays?

I feel like saying that people tend to be lazy, especially ml-programmers ;-)
So, unless they are forced to press 'shift' key when giving a name to
a new file, they usually won't.
I believe OCaml will never force programmers to give capitalized
source file names (I might be wrong).
The only way I see for that to happen would be to provide a new
Caml-frontend, which would force that. But then, nothing guarantees
that it'll be used...

Oh, another idea: ask **teachers** to teach this practice! :-)
(I'll try to teach this practice if I teach Caml again, which might happen)

-- 
Philippe Wang
   mail@philippewang.info



On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM, 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?
>
>
> Lauri
>