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

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Subject: Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?
From: Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:11:30 -0700
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote:
People use nonadic functions (nonary operators? where non = 0, not 9)
without parens, and get themselves into trouble for it.

I believe the word you're looking for is '"nullary".

Alternately, the word is spelled "niladic", which also has the advantage of looking like "monadic", "dyadic", etc. -- Darren Duncan


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