Question mark in variable and function names

[Andrew Dalke]

Ville Vainio wrote:
> Abundant ! and ? characters in functions are a good reason to *avoid*
> Scheme. All that shift-pressing and noisy code doesn't suit my
> aesthetic sensibilities.

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

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


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


def symbolP x
   return x>0
end

if symbolP 5 then
   print "Positive!\n"
end

   contains less noise than

def symbolP(x):
   return x > 0

if symbolP(5):
   print "Positive!"


				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com