[racket-dev] Planet 2 package names

That's a typo in the docs. Numbers are allowed.

Jay

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Currently (the latest nightly build), the names of Planet 2 packages are
> restricted to use only the characters a-z, A-Z, _, and -.  The current set
> of Racket collections, on the other hand, uses a-z, 0-9, and -.  Planet 1
> also has several packages using 0-9.  We need to add digits to the set of
> valid names if we want 2htdp, algol60, planet2 (itself!), r5rs, and r6rs to
> be "package-friendly".  I know if I were to release a package named after
> ACL2 somehow, I'd be hard-pressed to figure out what to do with the "2".
>
> Planet 1 packages and Racket collections also don't use A-Z (with one or two
> exceptions on Planet).  In theory, we could disallow those characters and
> gain compatibility with case-insensitive mediums such as the default Mac OS
> X filesystem.  I'm not particularly attached to this second proposal, but
> since it leads to potential errors I thought it was worth bringing up.  If
> we leave both cases in, we at least need to make sure programs that run on
> Windows and Unix don't break on Mac due to package names conflicting on the
> filesystem.
>
> Carl Eastlund
>
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