Rob Pike
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to Russ Cox, Brad Fitzpatrick, alexandr...@gmail.com, David Symonds, golang-dev
A search for encoding b64] gives you base64, but we're not shortening that one.
I think a two-letter package name is too short for something that
carries so little weight, and I had never heard of this abbreviation,
but if you all think it's the natural name, I could acquiesce. I admit
that "quotedprintable" is long but it's also the name everyone says
out loud when they talk about it. Look at this list:
% ls src/pkg/encoding
ascii85 base64 encoding.go json
asn1 binary gob pem
base32 csv hex xml
%
Every package name there is, when spoken, the name of the encoding on
common speech. I've never heard "qp" given as the name of
"quoted-printable". Maybe I move in the wrong circles.
-rob