Question mark in variable and function names

[Ville Vainio]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Dalke <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:

    >> mystruct.sortD()   # destructive
    >> if symbolP(obj): ...       # predicate

    Andrew> But that means pressing the shift key for the 'D', '(',
    Andrew> ')' and 'P' characters.  You answer doesn't address your
    Andrew> first complaint.

It doesn't - and I wouldn't use that convention unless imposed by an
authority. But others would be free to do so even now.

Incidentally, I've remapped my keyboard so that ( and ) don't require pressing
shift.

    Andrew> Do you prefer Ruby's parens free call syntax?  Or is it
    Andrew> that from practice you no longer consider '(', ')' and ':'
    Andrew> to be noisy?

I like "()", mostly because the cleaner code would not be worth the
increased semantic complexity. I don't mind ":", I actually like the
look of it.

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