Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Identifiers should just allow spaces. > > first element.get item(selected value) > > This is not a joke.
It would be a hideous pain to read though. My decades of schooling have carved channels in my brain that recognise the space as a *separator* for lexical elements, and any non-space separator as being lower down the hierarchy. The parentheses just look awkward, but the period is *definitely* joining tokens together whereas the spaces separate them. Thus, the example you give parses as the tokens "first", "element.get", "item", "selected", "value". I don't see any language with the characteristics you describe being at all useful until the major natural language of programmers ceases to use spaces this way. -- \ "First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, for verbing | `\ weirds language. Then, they arrival for the nouns and I speech | _o__) nothing, for I no verbs." -- Peter Ellis | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
