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From: Peter Ammon <peter_ammon@rocketmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:03:25 -0700
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Wes Groleau wrote:

> Peter Ammon wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Does Dylan prevent having variables named Max,
> Max-Iterations, & Iterations in the same scope?
> 

No.  Whitespace is more important in Dylan than in a language like C.

Max-Iterations <-- variable name
Max - Iterations <-- Max minus Iterations

Other strange characters can appear in Dylan variable names.  This 
allows for some nice naming conventions without the nastiness of 
something like Hungarian Notation.  See 
http://www.gwydiondylan.org/gdref/tutorial/naming-conventions.html

-Peter