[Insight-developers] removing the dash in the module names

[Bill Lorensen]

Virtually every .h file in the toolkit will need editing... Is there
some other, perhaps wrapping-specific solution?

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 06/23/2011 04:07 AM, Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>> most of the languages won't support a dash in the module name.
>>
>> Would it be ok to remove those dash in the module names?
>>
>>    ITK-Common
>>    ITK-IO-Base
>>
>> would become
>>
>>    ITKCommon
>>    ITKIOBase
>
> Perhaps underscores?
>
>  ITK_Common
>  ITK_IO_Base
>
> IMO having a separator breaks with our C++ coding guideline naming
> style enough to clearly distinguish the names as modules.  It also
> makes the name components clear, especially when the module names
> are all uppercase.  Consider
>
>  ITK-IO-PNG   =>  ITKIOPNG  v. ITK_IO_PNG
>  ITK-IO-TIFF  =>  ITKIOTIFF v. ITK_IO_TIFF
>
> -Brad
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