DBus properties naming rules

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On September 8, 2009, you wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Aaron J. Seigo<aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On September 7, 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> Why do you think properties should be treated like members ? This change
> >> would apply new restriction to property names that have the potential to
> >> render a lot of existing interfaces noncompliant, for very little gain.
> >
> > right now we have an inconsistency between one type of item available in
> > an interface compared to all the rest. service names, methods, signals
> > all have these restrictions on them and properties stand out as odd
> > ducks. consistency is a good trait.
> 
> It makes as much sense, as forcing Java (or C++ or Python or whatever)
> to use same case and format for class names, constants, functions,
> methods, properties, namespaces and local variables. ;)

we're talking about the allowed character set, not case or stylistic format. 
it's a slightly different matter, as the former says which characters are 
legal and the latter suggest how to use those characters. (to state the 
obvious)

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