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> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:16:17 +0000
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> A scheme like converting Foo::Bar.3 to Foo__Bar.3 might not work very well,
> because some module prefix may be > 8 characters. The resulting mappings would
> not be unique for a module prefix with lots of submodules. (My terminology is
> probably wrong here.) So VitalModule::Bar and VitalModule::Baz would have
> conflicting man page file names. We could do something similar to module names
> and put them in subdirectories, e.g. VitalModule::Bar.3 -> VitalModule/Bar.3,
> but this will require special support in our man.

How about VitalModule::Bar.3 -> VitalModuleBar.3?

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