S19 uses hyphens for all of perl6's long-form command-line flags.
Command-line flags and methods are separate sets. Hyphens would be the
norm for flags.
In S28, we find $*EXECUTABLE_NAME and %*META-ARGS listed
within 10 lines of each other.
S32-setting-library_IO.pod and
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
That kind of consistency is not much better than inconsistency in terms of
usability, IMO. I'd much prefer a purely lexical convention that doesn't
rely on how you assign parts of speech or define a single word that has a
hyphen in it.
Given that we allow hyphens in identifiers, I'd personally
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
