On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > You are entitled to as many peeves as you'd like. The neat thing > is that Racket's identifier syntax is liberal and allows you to > use dots. I have been doing so for years :-) and I didn't complain > to the mailing list. >
But you should have, or at least should have mentioned it somewhere. Conventions that expert programmers settle upon to organize their code are worth sharing with people. Using a dash as a word separator and concept separator is confusing, but I felt a little heretical when I started naming my functions with data-type-to-manipulate.action-to-perform because I thought it was un-Scheme-ly. One thing that Scheme/Racket lacks is the wealth of stylistic advice that languages like C++, Java, Python, etc. have in abundance. Maybe it's because Schemers/Racketeers figure other people can figure out how to name their variables to keep the code well organized, but it just isn't so. :-) Todd _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
