Russ P. a écrit :
On Jun 8, 5:40 am, Mark Wooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Russ P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The idea of being able to discern properties of an object by its name
alone is something that is not normally done in programming in
general.
Really? You obviously haven't noticed Prolog, Smalltalk, Haskell, ML,
or Erlang then. And that's just the ones I can think of off the top of
my head.
* Prolog and Erlang distinguish atoms from variables by the case of
the first letter; also `_' is magical and is equivalent to a new
variable name every time you use it.
* Smalltalk distinguishes between global and local variables according
to the case of the first letter.
* Haskell distinguishes between normal functions and constructors
(both data constructors and type constructors) by the case of the
first letter, and has Prolog's `_' convention.
* ML allows a single-quote in variable names, but reserves names
beginning with a single-quote for type variables. It also has
Prolog's `_' convention.
As far as I can see, discerning properties of a thing from its name
seems relatively common.
Well, "common" in Prolog, Smalltalk, Haskell, ML, and Erlang is hardly
common in general. I'll bet that Java and C/C++ are used more in North
Dakota than all those languages combined are used in the entire world.
And you'll very probably loose.
That's not to say they aren't interesting academic languages, of
course.
Erlang an "academic" language ? Man, you're either a troll or totally
clueless.
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