[silva-dev] Re: some procdural questions

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 01 September 2003 11:51, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> > There is a consensus in Zope3 ti18n team to say that _ (underscore)
> > should be avoided
> > in message ids and replaced by - (dash) in order both to have a quick
> > hint that a string is a message id and to avoid shift key while typing
> > ;-)
>
> till now I used the _ "underscore" in message-ids and would have to
> modify a lot of files to change to the dash convention.

You should really change it though. To quote Fred Drake: "Underscores are 
evil." Another reason we want to avoid underscores is to make clear that we 
are dealing with message ids and not with Python variables.

Regards,
Stephan
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