CamelCase versus wide_names (Prothon)

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Mon Apr 26 05:14:37 EDT 2004


Op 2004-04-23, Mark Hahn schreef <mark at prothon.org>:
>
> "Antoon Pardon" <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote in message
> news:slrnc8hluh.s60.apardon at trout.vub.ac.be...
>
>>   copy(a)to(b)
>
> That's cool looking but I'm pretty sure impossible to parse the way you want
>:)

What is so hard to parse? It is just a sequence of components and
argumentlists. You just string the components together to form
an identifier and combine all the argumentlists into one.

> Although, out angle brackets are free in Prothon right now.  We could
> reserve them for that:
>
>     copy<a>to<b>.
>
> Interesting.  That would drive newbies to the language crazy :)  It sure is
> readable.  It kind of lets you design you own syntax inside the symbols.
>
> I must hand it to you.  That's one of the most creative crazy ideas I've
> seen lately.  It is refreshing to see fun creative feedback instead of the
> "your language is just Perl" type of feedback.
>
> Maybe you could hang out on Prothon-user ?

Where do I subscribe?

-- 
Antoon Pardon



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