Re: rough first impressions

[email protected] wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:12:24 -0400
>>From: Jonathan Bachrach <[email protected]>
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>>actually what i was thinking was changing goo over to using case 
>>sensitivity and having all caps be the convention for types.  this 
>>saves characters and is pretty standard and lets you name the 
>>constructors by lowercasing the type name.  lots of lispers object to 
>>case sensitivity and using the shift key (except to type parentheses).
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>It seems reasonable to have a different namespace for types.  I think
>all-caps is PRETTY HEAVY THOUGH.  What about having the first letter
>capitalized?  Many languages (prolog, ocaml, haskell) use this convention
>for various purposes.
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Yuck.  I thought we'd moved beyond this kind of syntax.  Fortran 
variables that begin with i-n are integers, Basic variables that end 
with $ are strings....

Case sensitivity detracts from readability. As do short abbreviations 
that don't mean anything.

But I guess I'm an old fogey who likes to read words.