From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108717,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-04 05:28:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F7EB8C4.3756F59B@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ References: <2cfd1a4e.0309252032.3e3c0a1a@posting.google.com> <3F7C37C3.B5469C33@Sonnack.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:28:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.169.27 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1065270518 12.90.169.27 (Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:28:38 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:28:38 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software-eng:51 comp.programming:348 comp.lang.c++:770 comp.lang.ada:214 Date: 2003-10-04T12:28:38+00:00 List-Id: Matt Gregory wrote: > Peter Ammon wrote: > > Programmer Dude wrote: > > ... snip ... > >> > >> (In proportional fonts, hyphens are usually skinnier than > >> underscores and (to my eye) make the text more readable. > >> It's not as noticable with monospace fonts, but I think the > >> lower example looks better (read: more readable :-).) > > > > Agreed! I wish that more languages allowed hyphen use in identifiers. > > Dylan is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. > > Lisp and Scheme. Cobol -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!