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1. Waste of time and mental cycles: forces the programmer to do the parser's job because the language designer was too lazy to build in the logic to recognize v
by ur-whale 7y ago
1. Waste of time and mental cycles: forces the programmer to do the parser's job because the language designer was too lazy to build in the logic to recognize variables.
2. Carpal tunnel syndrome, especially on keyboards where "$" can only be reached via shift.
- fetbaffe 7y ago1. Personally I find it easier to read variable names prefixed with dollar signs, it differentiates variables from other symbols, which makes them very easy to find, especially now when many languages gives information overload by lots of type information etc. My eyes can scan code faster. 2. rebind your keyboard.