chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Yet you have the choice of where to put your braces, even
>> though the braces don't lend themselves to different tasks
>> depending on whether you put them on a new line or not.
>
> You *don't* have the choice to use different types of
> braces, though --
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:27 +0100, Daniel Brockman wrote:
> Yet you have the choice of where to put your braces, even
> though the braces don't lend themselves to different tasks
> depending on whether you put them on a new line or not.
You *don't* have the choice to use different types of braces
Thank you for your considerate reply, Brent.
> I see a few syntactic problems with this idea: the subtraction and
> negation operators you already mentioned,
Did I miss any problems related to those?
> but also the fact that dashes are already used in package names to
> indicate version and auth
Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So what is my suggestion? Obviously disallowing underscores
> and instead allowing hyphens would just replace one problem
> with an even worse problem (not only would there still be
> people who don't like hyphens, but it would alienate a large
> portio
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 05:31 +0100, Daniel Brockman wrote:
> This is a very valid concern, but the problem will not arise
> unless people start mixing these two styles --- something
> which is very obviously not a good idea.
That doesn't mean that people will avoid it, by accident or on purpose.
I
Sebastian,
> I like hyphens. They're easier to type and help
> prevent_me_from_Doing_This and generating errors because
> of case sensitivity.
>
> On the other hand, consistency of appearance may be a
> problem for some people. I often associate code with the
> way it looks on screen, not necessa
I like hyphens. They're easier to type and help
prevent_me_from_Doing_This and generating errors because of case
sensitivity.
On the other hand, consistency of appearance may be a problem for some
people. I often associate code with the way it looks on screen, not
necessarily with what it does or
I'm not a Lisp weenie. However, I have always preferred
hyphens over underscores, and I have always preferred
identifiers that use delimiters over camel-cased ones.
I just think `foo-bar-baz' looks better than `foo_bar_baz'.
Maybe it's the "lexical connotation" of hyphens from natural
language (i
Luke Palmer wrote:
>There are two reasons I've posted to perl6-language this time. First
>of all, is this acceptable behavior? Is it okay to die before the
>arguments to an undefined sub are evaluated?
>
>
>
Something like:
widgetMethod new Widget;
The best argument I've got for forcing the
