On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Terry Allen wrote:
> Yes, there is a good reason to avoid use of underscores. Use
> hyphens or periods instead: it saves keystrokes and RSI.
>
... maybe we should stick to ISO9660/DOS (DBLCRELM.HTM ..) .. just
kidding! We should probably avoid spaces (which work under Unix, Win95 and
no doubt Mac). I tend to think of underscore as semantically equivalent to
space, while hyphen is something else. It's a style thing, I guess.
dublin-core-elements.html
dublin_core_elements.html
DublinCoreElements.html
dublincoreelements.html
dublin.core.elements.html
etc.
hyphens might be broken by word processing software, leaving one to wonder
whether they're hard or soft. Versions without separators might sound
strange on speech synthesis units. Multiple periods are illegal on some
filesystems ....
cheers, Andrew
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