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 args
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 (it
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
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 necessarily
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.
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
portion of
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 author
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,
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 -- at least
