A makeshift preprocessor written say in Perl could be used to replace the
embedded hyphens with underscores thereby making them synonyms. A list of ways
in which hyphens are used in the language will need to be developed so they may
be distinguished. You don't want a single line comment sign being taken as
containing an embedded hyphen. If done properly it shouldn't cause any
problems. It will allow you to side step having to actually modify the language
and may be portable across language implementations. I use the C language
preprocessor to correct a number of features of the C language syntax that I
find ugly.
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