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From: Smylers [mailto:smyl...@stripey.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:20 AM
To: perl6-language@perl.org
Subject: Re: Underscores v Hyphens (Was: [perl6/specs] a7cfe0: [S32]
backtraces
overhaul)
Moritz Lenz writes:
Am 23.08.2011 10:46, schrieb Damian
Moritz Lenz writes:
Am 23.08.2011 10:46, schrieb Damian Conway:
... why hidden_from_backtrace instead of hidden-from-backtrace?
... low-level things are spelled with underscores, while we reserve
the minus character for user-space code.
So the idea is that if Perl 6 has an identifier
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:19, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
Could we have underscores and hyphens mean the same thing? That is, Perl
6 always interprets illo-figut and illo_figut as being the same
identifier (both for its own identifiers and those minted in programs),
with programmers
Damian (), Moritz (), Smylers ():
... why hidden_from_backtrace instead of hidden-from-backtrace?
... low-level things are spelled with underscores, while we reserve
the minus character for user-space code.
So the idea is that if Perl 6 has an identifier zapeth_clunk itself that
leaves
Am 24.08.2011 11:33, schrieb Carl Mäsak:
Damian (), Moritz (), Smylers ():
... why hidden_from_backtrace instead of hidden-from-backtrace?
... low-level things are spelled with underscores, while we reserve
the minus character for user-space code.
So the idea is that if Perl 6 has an
Smylers wrote:
Could we have underscores and hyphens mean the same thing? That is, Perl
6 always interprets illo-figut and illo_figut as being the same
identifier (both for its own identifiers and those minted in programs),
with programmers able to use either separator on a whim?
I oppose
Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:18:20 PDT:
Smylers wrote:
Could we have underscores and hyphens mean the same thing? That is, Perl
6 always interprets illo-figut and illo_figut as being the same
identifier (both for its own identifiers and those minted in
Tom Christiansen wrote:
Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:18:20 PDT:
I oppose this. Underscores and hyphens should remain distinct.
That would seem to be the most human-friendly approach.
I disagree. More human friendly is if it looks different in any way
