John Siracusa commented:
> That's certainly an example of how hyphens might gain meaning in Perl
> 6 names, but I don't think I can endorse it as a convention. People
> can't even use hyphens correctly in written English. I have very
> little faith that programmers will do any better in code
But then the only alternative is to suffer under Slartibartfast's Conundrum:
Slartibartfast: I'd much rather be happy than right, any day.
Arthur Dent: And are you?
Slartibartfast: Ah, well...that's where it all falls down, of course.
;-)
And is it really so hard to teach: "use underscore by default and reserve
hyphens for between a noun and its adjective"? Perhaps it *is*, but
then that's a very sad reflection on our profession.
I'm certainly not saying we mightn't collectively find a better (more
useful) rule, but that one doesn't strike me as particularly hard.
Damian
