delete-event or delete_event

[Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart Vandewoestyne skynet be>]

I found this kind of curiosity... can somebody tell me if what i'm
writing is true?

When I was looking for some method do destroy my main application
window, I did something like this:

gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT(mot_main_window), "delete_event",
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(mot_destroy_window), NULL);

and my program killed its window just fine.

But then I watched the reference documentation and i saw that the event
was "delete-event" and was written with an minus sign instead of a
underscore sign.  I changed it and it also seemed to work.

Can somebody explain this to me why both worked?

Greetzzz
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