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11689 :: Package name and file name convention for Nim

• paalon (orginal) [2024-06-02T06:20:29+02:00] view original

  What is the package name and file name convention for Nim? Style guide does not mention it. Nim language standard library uses alllowercases, and Nim packages seem to use alllowercases.

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• z_____________ (orginal) [2024-06-02T06:51:41+02:00] view original

  As with everything Nim there is no hard and fast rule on this. Most of the package names I see and use are all lowercase and alphanumeric. An exception that comes to mind is zero_functional. A package should be named the same as the root module it provides. Using capital letters strikes me as incredibly ugly and out of place.

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• Alogani (orginal) [2024-06-11T01:54:58+02:00] view original

  For file names, generally nim tends to use all lowercase like socketstreams.nim. But sometimes use snake_case, particularly when files import is conditional like posix_linux_amd64.nim or posix_openbsd_amd64.nim.

  For module name, generally PascalCase.

  However, like z_____________ said, there are no fixed rules.

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• Isofruit (orginal) [2024-06-11T07:17:04+02:00] view original

  I always use camel-case for consistency as I also use it when writing actual code. It is one less thought on something utterly meaningless that I can spare myself, while having at least something (the capitalization) to ease read-flow.

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