Yay! <div class="gmail_extra"> Carl Eastlund <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> That's a typo in the docs. Numbers are allowed. Jay <div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Carl Eastlund <<a href="mailto:cce@ccs.neu.edu">cce@ccs.neu.edu</a>> 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 > </div></div>> _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev</a> > -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/%7Ejay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 </blockquote></div> </div>