> S19 uses hyphens for all of perl6's long-form command-line flags.

Command-line flags and methods are separate sets. Hyphens would be the
norm for flags.

> In S28, we find $*EXECUTABLE_NAME and %*META-ARGS listed
> within 10 lines of each other.

> S32-setting-library_IO.pod and S32-setting-library_Numeric.pod each have
> public multi-word method names with hyphens.

In both cases, hyphens are linking qualifying adjectives to nouns,
while hyphens separate distinct words.  One could argue that is not
inconsistent.

On 8/23/11, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:36:27PM +0200, Damian Conway wrote:
>> And I'd like there to be a more consistent approach than that
>> (though I don't really care what it actually is).
>
> +1 to consistency.
>
> Pm
>

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