-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-11-21 21:35, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>> what makes the name [list foo] any better than [listfoo]? > > Yeahreallythey'rebothequallyclearespeciallyformusicianswhoaren'tprogrammers. > > Justlikereadingamusicscore--whitespacedoesn'taffectreadabilitythatmuch. i don't know. my native language allows construction of compound words, and while this seems ridiculous to many english speakers, it's not that it makes a lot of problems in real world. for unknown reasons, it seems that [text file] seems to work for lots of people. >> It's a form of namespacing. and i argue that it's a bad idea to introduce whitespace as namespace delimiter in a language that already uses whitespace as token/atom separator. i cannot remember any other complang, that uses whitespace as namespace delimiter, most likely because virtually all languages already use whitespace to separate tokens. > > Hyphens work, too, but two words against each other are less readable. i'm fine with hyphen, underscore, CamelCase. i just don't like space. fgmasdr IOhannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7Kve8ACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvRP6ACgq0ROp6mYOhJV4ufpU+2UwVG+ DLgAn3wRvqLMLqY0MbAv9AOKUa9Hydmr =COwq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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