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Code with a mix of Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase looks ugly.

by abakus 8y ago

sbjs 8y ago
Every language looks ugly to someone who doesn't need it ;) I have learned to ignore the inconsistencies in the languages that I have to use, especially if it's for a paying gig. Otherwise I would go crazy! Every single language has them, I'm not kidding.
- s-shellfish 8y ago
  That's a nice practice
tejtm 8y ago
Less so when you see strongly typed system which _you_ authored which is every bit as native as the 'Native' type system we sometimes wish other languages we use in practice had at all.
invmatth 8y ago
Fairly subjective, it is easily readable at least.
ellisv 8y ago
Just wait until you see Julia's unicode input - you can use pretty emojis instead of ugly "Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase"!
jey 8y ago
The naming conventions are all very sensible, but I can see how it looks funny if you aren't fluent in Julia.
- dnautics 8y ago
  In case anyone doesn't know, the Julia convention is: UpperCamelCase: modules & types snake_case: variables and functions This convention is shared, for example, with elixir (also FP Lang) Also bang_functions! By convention, not enforced, indicate that the function may mutate one of its passed parameters. (Taken from Ruby's "be careful with this member function" idiom) @at_sigil: macros (enforced by the language)
  - idunning 8y ago
    Its also very similar to many opinionated Python style guides (minus the !, and where @ is used for decorators [which are a bit meta like macros])
  - simen 8y ago
    Ruby uses the same convention. (excluding macros, and adding question_mark_predicates?) I've seen C++ projects that adopt the same style. I don't see what's so objectionable about it.
JadeNB 8y ago
> Code with a mix of Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase looks ugly. What is Y%#$?
- simonbyrne 8y ago
  Well, in Julia it's an incomplete expression (Y is a variable, % is the infix operator for remainder, and # a line comment (the $ is used for string/command interpolation, but is commented out).
  - JadeNB 8y ago
    Given that some of the characters in the original were italicised, I think that there were probably some stars in there that Markdown ate. My question wasn't really what operation it performs or tries to perform, but rather what abakus (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473616) meant by comparison with lower_UPPER_CamelCase.

Code with a mix of Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase looks ugly.

by abakus 8y ago

Code with a mix of Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase looks ugly.

sbjs 8y ago

Every language looks ugly to someone who doesn't need it ;) I have learned to ignore the inconsistencies in the languages that I have to use, especially if it's for a paying gig. Otherwise I would go crazy! Every single language has them, I'm not kidding.

s-shellfish 8y ago
That's a nice practice

tejtm 8y ago

Less so when you see strongly typed system which _you_ authored which is every bit as native as the 'Native' type system we sometimes wish other languages we use in practice had at all.

invmatth 8y ago

Fairly subjective, it is easily readable at least.

ellisv 8y ago

Just wait until you see Julia's unicode input - you can use pretty emojis instead of ugly "Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase"!

jey 8y ago

The naming conventions are all very sensible, but I can see how it looks funny if you aren't fluent in Julia.

dnautics 8y ago
In case anyone doesn't know, the Julia convention is: UpperCamelCase: modules & types snake_case: variables and functions This convention is shared, for example, with elixir (also FP Lang) Also bang_functions! By convention, not enforced, indicate that the function may mutate one of its passed parameters. (Taken from Ruby's "be careful with this member function" idiom) @at_sigil: macros (enforced by the language)
- idunning 8y ago
  Its also very similar to many opinionated Python style guides (minus the !, and where @ is used for decorators [which are a bit meta like macros])
- simen 8y ago
  Ruby uses the same convention. (excluding macros, and adding question_mark_predicates?) I've seen C++ projects that adopt the same style. I don't see what's so objectionable about it.

JadeNB 8y ago

> Code with a mix of Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase looks ugly. What is Y%#$?

simonbyrne 8y ago
Well, in Julia it's an incomplete expression (Y is a variable, % is the infix operator for remainder, and # a line comment (the $ is used for string/command interpolation, but is commented out).
- JadeNB 8y ago
  Given that some of the characters in the original were italicised, I think that there were probably some stars in there that Markdown ate. My question wasn't really what operation it performs or tries to perform, but rather what abakus (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473616) meant by comparison with lower_UPPER_CamelCase.