Re: Haskell conventions (was: RE: how to write a simple cat)

[Friedrich Dominicus]

Jan Skibinski wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Craig Dickson wrote:
> 
> > I don't see that underscores serve readability in the same way as Hungarian
> > notation purports to (unless the Eiffel people claim that underscores
> > somehow convey type information?), so I don't see a conflict here. One could
> > easily use both, e.g. n_widget_count for an integer value.
> 
>         The only readability advantage of underscores is when
>         someone starts including abbreviations within the names.
>                 PAToVA?
>                 PAtoVA?
>                 PA_to_VA? [Whatever PA and VA means]
> 

If that would be true we just can drop space between words. The closest
to space in words is _. But it is completly unusual do write MixedCaSe
in normal text.

Just my 2 cents
Friedrich