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| From: | Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:45:36 +0200 |
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* John M. Dlugosz <dhcgnd702@sneakemail.com> [2008-08-11 06:25]: > I do agree that it may be better for multi-word identifiers > than camel case or underscores, as seen in many other languages > that the great unwashed masses have never heard of. XML and the stack of related technologies also do this (in particular, variables and functions in XPath), which is where I first encountered identifiers with dashes. I have been wishing I could have them in mainstream languages ever since. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> |
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