On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 17:20 -0700, yary wrote:
Adjectives and nouns aren't English-only. So Damian's proposal is
multi-culti. One could argue that Perl's identifiers, keywords, etc
are based on English so that it is more difficult for a non-English
speaker to discern why underscore is used in some places and hyphens
in other. The solution to that would be rote memorization of method
names, including "_" and "-" in the spelling. Not ideal, but most
likely what many English speaking programmers would do too. And would
cuss over.
Adjectives and nouns aren't English-only. So Damian's proposal is
multi-culti. One could argue that Perl's identifiers, keywords, etc
are based on English so that it is more difficult for a non-English
speaker to discern why underscore is used in some places and hyphens
in other. The solution to that would be rote memorization of method
names, including "_" and "-" in the spelling. Not ideal, but most
likely what many English speaking programmers would do too. And would
cuss over.
amount of rote memorization of special cases that Perl 5 required. Any
mixed use of _ and - in the standard setting defies that goal.
(FWIW, I don't really care which is used -- I see arguments for both --
but I do firmly believe the standard setting should only use one or the
other. Damian's Temporal example in which only one method used a
different separator made the rules-versus-exceptions part of my brain
scream for mercy.)
-'f
