Re: [racket] Variable naming conventions

2011-09-14 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2011-09-14 16:14:50 -0500, Jeremy Kun wrote: >Are there any other significant naming conventions I may run across? >perhaps using some of ~ @ $ ^ & . _ + = . Is it considered bad form to use >full UTF characters in identifiers? If you use Racket's OO facilities you'll see: potato%

Re: [racket] Variable naming conventions

2011-09-14 Thread Norman Gray
Jeremy, hello. On 2011 Sep 14, at 22:14, Jeremy Kun wrote: > Are there any other significant naming conventions I may run across? perhaps > using some of ~ @ $ ^ & . _ + = . Is it considered bad form to use full UTF > characters in identifiers? I've asked this same question in the past, and t

Re: [racket] Variable naming conventions

2011-09-14 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Pronounce the "/" as "with", and it usually makes sense. Sometimes it's for a variation of a behavior, or composition of behaviors, sometimes it's just as shorthand for the word "with", and sometimes it's something else. You might use "/" a little less often, now that you have keyword argumen

[racket] Variable naming conventions

2011-09-14 Thread Jeremy Kun
As I get deeper and deeper into Racket I notice a lot of interesting identifiers that seem to follow a naming convention, but I can't figure out what the convention is. For instance, extract-binding/single seems to use the slash to indicate that it only returns a single value, as opposed to a list