Message-ID: <ca53a1dd-7f85-9daa-853d-f111e174720c@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-08-09T20:02:02Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Underscores in package names
In-Reply-To: <CAD6tx95E2cu2SE4-3JS8DJH+LMFwpNCXu1B-AZmde-mDB_Y_WA@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/08/2019 10:23 a.m., Jim Hester wrote:
> To be clear, I'd be happy to contribute code to make this work, with
> the changes mentioned by Duncan and elsewhere in the codebase, if
> someone on R-core was interested in reviewing it.
You seem to have ignited a lot of discussion.
Just to add my own point of view: I think removing a restriction on the
allowed names is a generally bad idea. I think Rasmus B??th gave a
really valid complaint about the variety of naming conventions in R in a
presentation I saw based on his article
https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2012/RJ-2012-018/index.html
Looking at the article now, it's not as entertaining as I remember his
presentation was, but it makes good points about the value of consistency.
Duncan Murdoch