[Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

[John D. Earle]

Interesting point. I'll have to try what you suggested. A proportional font 
would lessen the need to align things up vertically. It is annoying from a 
typographical stand point when things are almost aligned, but a tad off and 
so I must admit that I am guilty as charged. Monospaced fonts encourage this 
condition.

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From: "Evan Laforge" <qdunkan at gmail.com>
Sent: 09 Wednesday December 2009 1847
To: "John D. Earle" <JohnDEarle at cox.net>
Cc: "Haskell Cafe" <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, John D. Earle <JohnDEarle at cox.net> wrote:
>> The problem that I see with elision resulting in juxtaposition is that it
>> would alter the layout. Each line would not have the same number of
>> characters before and after the makeover. Visual appearance would also be
>> altered. Replacing hyphens with underscores as I originally proposed
>
> As long as we're pushing pet peeves: don't line things up vertically
> then.  If you use a newline and add a tab level you can still use
> layout and not have this problem.  You wind up with less indentation
> too, though occasionally more vertical space.  And you can use
> proportional fonts if you want.  And you can use editor indent/dedent
> commands without the editor having to understand haskell.  Etc.
>
> My pet peeve is having to lean on the space bar while squinting at the
> screen because someone wants to line things up vertically.