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should single colons be allowed in bank names? #1399
Description
The following ALERT bank names use single colons:
ALERT::ai:projections
ALERT::ai:prepid
ALERT::ai:prepid
ALERT::ai:prepid
Single colons should be fine, but some downstream code may assume double colons (::) everywhere, for example the HIPO dataframe code
Should we change to double colons?
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[-]should single colons be allowed in ALERT bank names?[/-][+]should single colons be allowed in bank names?[/+]baltzell commentedon Aug 26, 2026
Seems to me that bank names with single colons are no better or worse than ones with double colons, and that hipo-cpp software stayed safe by only manipulating double colons?
c-dilks commentedon Aug 26, 2026
It's safer now: https://code.jlab.org/hallb/clas12/hipo-cpp/-/merge_requests/44
c-dilks commentedon Sep 1, 2026
Allowing only double colons makes it easier to find bank names in the Java source code, e.g.,