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Re: [YANG] so many naming scopes

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 09 January 2008 23:24 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>
Subject: Re: [YANG] so many naming scopes
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:04:46PM -0800, Andy Bierman wrote:

> Except that YANG has embedded coding style text already,
> such as the sentence about SHOULD NOT differ only in case.
> Names such as foo and Foo and perfectly valid.  There is
> no reason whatsoever to have this text, same as a CLR
> about not having grouping foo and typedef foo, other than
> to enforce a coding style.  (My suggestion was SHOULD, not MUST.)

So lets remove this "SHOULD NOT differ only in case" rule from the
language specification and lets start a guidelines document (or an
appendix for simplicity) where we collect such guidelines.

/js

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