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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:46:30 +0200
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On 30.04.2025 12:25, David Brown wrote:
> On 30/04/2025 11:06, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>
>> I've seen on more than one occasion C++ (not C yet) projects where there
>> were 2 files only different in case, eg: Network.cpp and network.cpp
>> where
>> the former would be the class and the latter would be procedural
>> support code.
> 
> I'd question the wisdom of such a convention.  I'd rather have clearer
> separation of the filenames, or perhaps use different directories,
> aiming to make it hard to mix up the names.  But maybe it is an
> appropriate choice in some situations - perhaps alternative naming
> schemes were considered worse in other ways.

I recall similar situations in our C++ contexts where name suffixes
were used (like "_util", "_aux", or similar) to disambiguate them.

I don't think it's a good idea to use the same names and resolve
them by organizing them through different directories only. I recall
we had used regularly -I compiler flags and I don't want to imagine
the hassle with same file names located in different directories.

Janis