Re: proposed renaming [Re: underscores in gnulib file names

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim,

> >>   m4/group-member.m4
> >>   lib/group-member.c
> >>   lib/group-member.h
> >>   modules/group-member
> >>
> >> ... Do you find those confusing?
> >
> > Somewhat, yes.
> 
> Surely you're exaggerating -- for the sake of argument?

The confusion is not big. But here's where I would put dashes and where I
would put underscore's if I had complete freedom: Underscores to reflect
a C function name, and dashes to join different semantic levels into a file
name.

Because of the C function name:
  getlogin_r.c            ok
  gai_strerror.c          ok
  inet_ntop.c             ok
  acl_entries.c           ok
  iconv_open-aix.gperf    ok, it's about iconv_open, not iconv
  size_max.h              ok, it's about SIZE_MAX
  gl_array_oset.h         ok, defines gl_array_oset_implementation

Different semantic levels:
  regex_internal.c        ->   regex-internal.c
  fnmatch_loop.c          ->   fnmatch-loop.c
  getopt_.h               ->   getopt.in.h or getopt-in.h

Bruno