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> I was on your side until I tried it, but it can actually be quite useful, esp. if everything is consistent. On my side? You cannot imagine how extreme one
by enriquto 6y ago
> I was on your side until I tried it, but it can actually be quite useful, esp. if everything is consistent.
On my side? You cannot imagine how extreme one can be... If I had my way, programming languages would only allow single-letter variables and space would be the multiplication operator.
- nerdponx 6y agoWhat possible justification could you have for making this mandatory? Math notation being dependent on single-character names is an artifact of "concatenation as multiplication" -- which in my opinion is a useful but sloppy historical convention with little merit or relevance in non-handwritten media.
- necrotic_comp 6y agoOkay - I wasn't meaning to pick a fight here. Just saying that there are definite use cases where spaces in variable names can work and actually be useful. That's all.