RE: [Caml-list] Capitalized source file names

[David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>]

Philippe Wang wrote:
> > 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'd always assumed it was a UNIX-y "thing" - people don't tend to use capitalised filenames. Coming from a more Windows-background, when I started OCaml I just intuitively used capital letters for filenames (as that's more natural there anyway - and tab completion is of course case-agnostic so I never have to press shift!)

> I believe OCaml will never force programmers to give capitalized source
> file names (I might be wrong).

I think that the team's preferences can be seen by the number of capitalised ML source files in the OCaml sources tree ;o)


David