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Subject: bug#26339: [PATCH v4 2/7] bootloader: Adapt vm to new bootloader API.
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Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:53:47 +0200
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Sun, 14 May 2017 15:28:47 +0200
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) wrote:
>
>> I suggest avoiding dots in identifiers (RnRS Scheme does not allow it
>> because it can conflict with the dot notation for pairs.)  Use a hyphen
>> instead.
>
> ... oops.  My fault for suggesting it.  I didn't have practical problems =
with dots before and some parts in Guix already use the dot
> (latest-kernel.org-release, package definitions and the previous bootload=
er that's in master for a long time).

Right, dots in identifiers are valid in Guile, I even use them for
packages, but somehow I mentally have double-standards between (gnu
packages =E2=80=A6) modules and the rest.  :-)

> But good to know.  I shall use no dots in identifiers in the future.  Any=
 preference of how to name derivations?

Often it=E2=80=99s enough to name them by what the correspond to (say =E2=
=80=9Cprofile=E2=80=9D,
=E2=80=9Cconfig-file=E2=80=9D, etc.).  In other cases, I usually use things=
 like
=E2=80=9Cos-drv=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cdrv=E2=80=9D.

Ludo=E2=80=99.