D-Bus Spec change: dashes in interface names

[Thiago Macieira]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
>I did think of another issue, which is that many programming languages
>allow underscore but not hyphen in identifiers. I think that's also why
>dbus doesn't allow starting things with a number (if I remember right
>that it doesn't allow that).

Each concept has a different rule:
Interfaces:
	can use underscore
	can NOT use hyphen
	can NOT begin with digits

bus names (not unique connection names):
	can use underscore
	can use hyphen
	can NOT begin with digits

object paths:
	can use underscore
	can NOT use hyphen
	can begin with digits

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