Complexity and starting over on the JVM
Blake
blake at kingdomrpg.com
Tue Feb 5 02:57:02 UTC 2008
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:44:15 -0800, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
"Personally I'd map plain shift-- (ie underscore) since
underscores_have_no_place_in_variable_names."
[checks Bible]
Well, I'll be, Exodus 4:2.
"And the Lord said unto him, 'What is that in tine hand?' And he said,
'It's a rod.' And Lord said, 'No, it's not. It's an underscore. What were
thou planning to doeth with that?' And Moses said, 'Smite Egyptians?' And
the Lord said, 'Thou wouldst use in thine variable names? As an affront to
thy Lord?'"
Well, it only gets worse from there.
tim further wrote: "Similarly I'd use ordinary ^ for return on the
keyboard."
Isn't that the way it works now?
I'm pro-left-arrow because it is completely unambiguous. I'm a long time
Pascal-er (sticks tongue out at Tim) and truth is, when you use the
colon-equal for assign, you end up mistakenly forgetting the colon. (Same
problem in reverse in C with ==.) With Pascal (unlike C or Smalltalk),
it's unlikely to compile when you screw it up. But it's a common novice
problem and even sneaks up on old pros from time-to-time.
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