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Use dashes for separators like in Lisp.

• LeonidasXIV 14y ago
  Just it doesn't work in most languages, as the - sign is usually the minus operator. In Java and Python 3 for example you can use Unicode in identifiers, maybe you can use mdash there (unless they forbid punctuation characters).
  • NateEag 14y ago
    For Emacs users, there is the wonderful package Smart Dash Mode: http://malsyned.net/smart-dash.html http://malsyned.net/smart-dash.html It takes a pretty good stab at whether you want a dash or an underscore, based on context. It's a whole lot easier on the wrists. (The only problem is you start to wish you had it everywhere, not just in Emacs.)
    • michaelcampbell 14y ago
      > (The only problem is you start to wish you had it everywhere, not just in Emacs.) Which is the cruelest joke of most of emacs' functionality, for me.
    • LeonidasXIV 14y ago
      Wow, as an Vim user, I think this is seriously cool. Now it'd need to support camelCode as well, so when I write camel-code in JavaScript, I get the right thing. That'd be awesome.
  • sethg 14y ago
    From reading PEP 3131 and UAX 31, it looks like the only non-ASCII punctuation mark that would be permitted is U+2040 CHARACTER TIE (⁀).
  • jhuni 14y ago
    In Perl 6 - is the infix minus operator and a valid delimiter.