Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

[Austin Hastings <Austin_Hastings@Yahoo.com>]

That sounds cool. Did you do it at the editor level, or at the keyboard 
level?
=Austin

Bob Rogers wrote:
>    From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
>    Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:07:33 -0400
>
>    I'm still somewhat ambivalent about this, myself.  My previous
>    experience with hyphens in identifiers is chiefly in languages that
>    don't generally have algebraic expressions, e.g. LISP, XML, so it will
>    take some getting used to in Perl . . .
>
> Amen.  I've long since reprogrammed "-" to give "_" if pressed once and
> "-" if pressed twice, when editing languages with C-like identifiers.
> So from my perspective, the added visual complexity is not worth it.
>
>                                         -- Bob Rogers
>                                            http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/
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