This may be a stupid question, but I don’t seem to be able to see a more detailed answer in the documentation. Say I would like to create a separately compiled module named FooBar. However if I some files foobar.ml and foobar.mli, the result of compiling will be a module named Foobar, not FooBar. …

[image] perry: Am I correct in thinking there is no obvious way to get around this, and I should accept that I’m stuck with naming the module Foobar? No you can name your file fooBar.mli. That said the programming guidelines advise you to separate words by underscore and not use camelcase. S…

Is inserting a capital into a file name reliable given that many non-Unix operating systems don’t deal very intelligently with case distinctions? Regardless, though, if the preferred style is to use underscore, I’ll use underscore. (I was going for the moment off of this style guide which suggests C…

(BTW, I have to thank everyone for being so kind. I’ve asked a bunch of questions recently and I’ve gotten nice answers each time. I wish that was the case in every programming language community, but it isn’t. Everyone has been very patient and helpful and it has made my life much easier.)

[image] perry: Is inserting a capital into a file name reliable given that many non-Unix operating systems don’t deal very intelligently with case distinctions? I think this has been used many times by projects without problems. I don’t think you’ll run into one as long as you don’t try to ha…

[image] dbuenzli: (this wouldn’t work on macos’ case insensitive file system). I believe Windows has similar (and sometimes worse) issues.

Everyone is very functional here :wink:

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I think this has been used many times by projects without problems. I don’t think you’ll run into one as long as you don’t try to have both foobar.ml and fooBar.ml (this wouldn’t work on macos’ case insensitive file system).

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