> -Original Message-
> From: Smylers [mailto:smyl...@stripey.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:20 AM
> To: perl6-language@perl.org
> Subject: Re: Underscores v Hyphens (Was: [perl6/specs] a7cfe0: [S32]
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> Moritz Lenz writes:
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Tom Christiansen wrote:
Darren Duncan wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:18:20 PDT:
I oppose this. Underscores and hyphens should remain distinct.
That would seem to be the most human-friendly approach.
I disagree. More human friendly is "if it looks different in any way then it is
different"
Darren Duncan wrote on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:18:20 PDT:
> Smylers wrote:
>> Could we have underscores and hyphens mean the same thing? That is, Perl
>> 6 always interprets illo-figut and illo_figut as being the same
>> identifier (both for its own identifiers and those minted in programs),
>> with
Smylers wrote:
Could we have underscores and hyphens mean the same thing? That is, Perl
6 always interprets illo-figut and illo_figut as being the same
identifier (both for its own identifiers and those minted in programs),
with programmers able to use either separator on a whim?
I oppose this.
Am 24.08.2011 11:33, schrieb Carl Mäsak:
Damian (>>>), Moritz (>>), Smylers (>):
... why hidden_from_backtrace instead of hidden-from-backtrace?
... low-level things are spelled with underscores, while we reserve
the minus character for user-space code.
So the idea is that if Perl 6 has an i
Damian (>>>), Moritz (>>), Smylers (>):
>> > ... why hidden_from_backtrace instead of hidden-from-backtrace?
>>
>> ... low-level things are spelled with underscores, while we reserve
>> the minus character for user-space code.
>
> So the idea is that if Perl 6 has an identifier zapeth_clunk itself
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:19, Smylers wrote:
>
>
> Could we have underscores and hyphens mean the same thing? That is, Perl
> 6 always interprets illo-figut and illo_figut as being the same
> identifier (both for its own identifiers and those minted in programs),
> with programmers able to use ei
Moritz Lenz writes:
> Am 23.08.2011 10:46, schrieb Damian Conway:
>
> > ... why hidden_from_backtrace instead of hidden-from-backtrace?
>
> ... low-level things are spelled with underscores, while we reserve
> the minus character for user-space code.
So the idea is that if Perl 6 has an identif
