Hyphens versus underscores

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:58:38AM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Does anyone known good reasons to prefer hyphens to underscores or vice
>> versa in file names?
>
>I am not aware of a technical reason to prefer one to the other. I find 
>hyphens easier to type than underscores because hyphens require use of a 
>Shift key on a QWERTY (Sholes) keyboard. Nonetheless, I seem to prefer 
>underscores, likely as a matter of habit.

I tend to use ``-'' more frequently than underscores for the same
reason, although I am finding myself more frequently capitalizing
the first character of new words after the first (e.g. fileList).

This can get one into problems though on case-insensitive file
systems such as the default on OS X.  I always reinstall OS X with
case-sensitive file systems, but have occassionally run into
problems with some commercial programs that don't work properly
on them, in particular the previous release of reunion genealogy
software, and I understand that some Adobe products don't work on
case-sensitive systems.

Bill
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