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authorMarcoFalke <[email protected]>2018-06-12 08:02:14 -0400
committerMarcoFalke <[email protected]>2018-06-12 08:02:20 -0400
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Merge #13312: docs: Add a note about the source code filename naming convention
e56771365b Do not use uppercase characters in source code filenames (practicalswift) 419a1983ca docs: Add a note about the source code filename naming convention (practicalswift) Pull request description: Add a note about the source code filename naming convention. Tree-SHA512: 8d329bd9e19bcd26e74b0862fb0bc2369b46095dbd3e69d34859908632763abd7c3d00ccc44ee059772ad4bae4460c2bcc1c0e22fd9d8876d57e5fcd346cea4b
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@@ -595,6 +595,12 @@ Source code organization
- *Rationale*: Shorter and simpler header files are easier to read, and reduce compile time
+- Use only the lowercase alphanumerics (`a-z0-9`), underscore (`_`) and hyphen (`-`) in source code filenames.
+
+ - *Rationale*: `grep`:ing and auto-completing filenames is easier when using a consistent
+ naming pattern. Potential problems when building on case-insensitive filesystems are
+ avoided when using only lowercase characters in source code filenames.
+
- Every `.cpp` and `.h` file should `#include` every header file it directly uses classes, functions or other
definitions from, even if those headers are already included indirectly through other headers.