[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

2009-12-16 Thread Ben Franksen
Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Montag 14 Dezember 2009 01:44:16 schrieb Richard O'Keefe: Where is it written that aesthetic judgements are _entirely_ a matter of personal preference? I think you could find that written in many texts on aesthetic relativism. Doesn't matter, though. Of course,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

2009-12-15 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Richard == Richard O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz writes: Richard The real point is that the revised version, with command Richard line arguments and all, is still just 52 SLOC. (41 if Richard you don't count type specifications the compiler could Richard have inferred or the two

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

2009-12-09 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:54 +1300, Richard O'Keefe wrote: On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: You mean to parse a - b differently then a-b? You don't have the problem in LISP as AFAIR you use (- a b) but in Haskell it would be a problem. It's a problem that COBOL

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

2009-12-09 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:54 +1300, Richard O'Keefe wrote: - Composition: In which first letters are not capitalized In combination of those I belive there is no disambiguoty since the lower case words functions as terminators. Except

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

2009-12-09 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On Dec 10, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: [it appears that I have been misinformed about . vs . ] Personally I don't have any strong feelings about conventions as long as they are consistent within one language. Camel cases are no more uncommon then the underscore and they