CamelCase versus wide_names (Prothon)

[Hugh Macdonald]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:07:48 +0200
Wilk <wilkSPAM at OUTflibuste.net> wrote:

> Why not - instead of _ ?
> 
> def my-function()
> 
> it doesn't need shift on azerty and qwerty isn'it ?
> 
> and we already use it in natural langage...

So what happens in the following code:

data = 23
my = 2
my-data = 56
value = 3

new-value = my-data-value

Or would it insist on:

new-value = my-data - value
or
new-value = my - data - value


I think having a character available for names that is also used elsewhere as an operator is a VeryBadThing(TM) (or should that be veryBadThing or very_bad_thing?)....


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Hugh Macdonald
The Moving Picture Company