.. _rfc-010:

RFC 010: Character Set for Names
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- Status: Final
- Submit Date: 2018-02-13
- Authors: SECoP committee
- Type: Issue
- PR:
- Version: 1.0

Summary
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Are upper-case letters allowed in identifiers (names of modules, accessibles,
properties)?


Issue text
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Uppercase Characters in Identifiers
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Actually (V2017-09-14), the following is specified:

The identifiers are composed by
lowercase ascii letters, digits and underscore, where a digit may not
appear as the first character. Identifiers starting with underscore are
reserved for special purposes like internal use for debugging. The
identifier length is limited (<=63 characters).

In an outdated part of the documentation it is not
explicitly stated, that identifiers have to be lower case, and also
in some of the running examples contain uppercase identifiers.

Decision
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Names may contain uppercased letters as long as the lowercase version is still
unique.