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Subject: Re: X atoms, a poll
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I think a lot of people would agree with me that it's a pain for things to be
case-sensitive. For example, I would want to be able to use BITMAP, bitmap,
bitMap, BitMap, etc. interchangeably. It's nice to be able to use mixed-case 
for the purposes of reading but I find it difficult to remember one
exact way to type a string unless you have strict conventions. Even so
typos will kill you.

As far as the hyphen-underscore (or hyphen_underscore in C) issue
goes, I don't know what you should do except to say that the design of
X should be general and flexible enough to accomodate the arbitrary
conventions of 
different languages. As long as the scheme is transparent to most programmers
I think a scheme would be satisfactory from an application programmer
interface point of view. So I'll leave it to the Xperts as to what is best
from a lower-level point of view.  

mark


mark
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