I agree that kebab variables aren't to my taste either, but I am partial to the notion of kebab-case keywords that I encountered in a JEP draft [0]. It suggests

I agree that kebab variables aren't to my taste either, but I am partial to the notion of kebab-case keywords that I encountered in a JEP draft [0]. It suggests expanding the keyword vocabulary with a form that is otherwise invalid syntax, similar to how java treats module-info.java and package-info.java as valid files, but rejects any other hyphenated java class filename. [0] https://openjdk.org/jeps/8223002 https://openjdk.org/jeps/8223002