Proposal3: Make $_ a valid identifier character
Andrew P. Black
black at cse.ogi.edu
Tue May 30 05:21:21 UTC 2000
At 0:00 -0500 2000.5.30, Eric Arseneau wrote:
>I recall that a friend of mine had created a language syntax without the use
>of BEGIN..END, [..], {..} or whatever form of bracketing is used in your
>favorite language. Instead use the indentation of the code and let the
>compiler figure out the begin and end of a 'block' of code.
Haskell and Occam both do this. Some people love it, some hate it.
Sorta like '_' in identifiers ...
Just because we use '-' as an infix operator does not mean that it
can't also be used in identifiers. It just requires that spaces
surround '-' when used as an infix operator, a convention that two
days ago I would have said that no one would object to. But that was
before this thread took off!
Andrew
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