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Perl6, Clojure, Racket, Rebol, Red, Factor & Forth are some other languages that allow hyphenated names. And I agree with you that hyphens are more readable. T
by draegtun 12y ago
Perl6, Clojure, Racket, Rebol, Red, Factor & Forth are some other languages that allow hyphenated names.
And I agree with you that hyphens are more readable. They're also good for adding extra semantic meaning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3978992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3978992
- kazinator 12y agoAdd to that list, GNU Make. In gmake, you sometimes need things that look like paths to be variable names: VAR_$(PATH) := whatever where PATH could be path/to/foo-parser.o, say.