From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/25
Date: 1998-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980125151733.15507A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6agcg1$i1k@lotho.delphi.com
On 25 Jan 1998 tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> It's somewhat odd, actually, that most computer languages use only word
> order (counting punctuation symbols as words) for parsing and don't
> use spelling/prefix/suffix changes to the words themselves as grammatical
> indicators. I wonder if that will still be the case in 50 years?
(Early) Fortran is one. The Scheme community uses a convention of "!" as a
suffix for side-effecting functions, and "?" for queries. Some other Lisps
adopt a <Typename> convention to distinguish types. OCaml also has some
capitalization rules for various entities.
I think that not enforcing a convention is OK, but I doubt we'll ever
achieve community wide consensus on this issue. Just be glad that the
capitalization rule of underscore separated intercap seems to be widely
followed. There will probably be about half a dozen styles for dealing
with the typename issue.
-- Brian
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1998-01-25 0:00 Distinguishing type names from other identifiers tmoran
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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1998-01-14 0:00 tmoran
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 Adam Beneschan
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-17 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Benoit Jauvin-Girard
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-10 0:00 Two simple language questions (plural types) Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
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1998-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
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