On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > SB> Why using hyphen-seaparated-words-is-better is beyond > SB> me, but it seems to be what folks decided upon. > > I guess: it's lisp-ish, and it's what emacs does. > > (I would still be interested in hearing the real reason ;-) Only the illustrious S and P can tell us the exact reasoning, but the c pdb functions export lotsa_underscore_names, and the db browser and scheme interfaces substitute a hyphen whereever they see an underscore. This really threw me off when I made the first perl<->gimp binding ages ago. Rockwalrus