[Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

[Matthew Pocock]

> x <- take_while some_condition some_list
>
> and
>
> x <- takeWhile someCondition someList


x <- take-while some-condition some-list

As someone who is dyslexic, I find both camelCase and dashes far easier to
read than underscores. I find it hard to count the words in the underscore
version - the underscores and spaces confuse me. Dashes do not, presumably
because they are 'within' the line of sight for the letters.

However, I can't help feeling that if we use good IDEs, we could
'internationalize' identifiers into english/french/chinese/camel/dash or
whatever.

Matthew
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