[Cryptography Team] Removing underscores

[Ron Teitelbaum]

My biggest concern is that others will have trouble loading our code.  I
suppose that we could release the patch to allow underscores as part of our
package, but then we will be responsible for watching that method for
changes later.  I still have not tried to find out why it works in my image.
I wonder if it's an update from GLORP?

Rob, how did you finally get it to work, or did underscores in class names
just work in windows?

Ron

> From: Bill Schwab
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:33 AM
> 
> Ron,
> 
> ==================
> It would appear that there is a fix for underscores but apparently the
> community at large does not support them.  So although I agree that
> underscores in methods and class names *SHOULD* be supported, how does
> the
> team feel about removing them from our code?
> ==================
> 
> Do whatever you think is best.  If you want to play along with the group
> to gain acceptance, so be it.  If you want to draw an underscore in the
> sand, that's ok too (though we might lose the fight), I'll gladly add a
> voice to the background noise.
> 
> Squeak certainly should allow underscores in class names and selectors.
> Your example (TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA) is extreme, but makes
> the point beyond ANSI and inter-dialect compatibility.  The "it will
> break old code" argument is weak IMHO - old code outside the image has
> probably broken due to changes anyway, so the compiler errors are most
> likely just the beginning.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
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