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From: IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca; "pd-list@iem.at" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [PD] "get" method for Pd
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On 2011-11-21 21:35, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
what makes the name [list foo] any better than [listfoo]?
Yeahreallythey'rebothequallyclearespeciallyformusicianswhoaren'tprogrammers.
Justlikereadingamusicscore--whitespacedoesn'taffectreadabilitythatmuch.
i don't know. my native language allows construction of compound words, and while this seems ridiculous to many english speakers, it's not that it makes a lot of problems in real world.
English speakers don't live in the real world?
-Jonathan
for unknown reasons, it seems that [text file] seems to work for lots of people.
It's a form of namespacing.
and i argue that it's a bad idea to introduce whitespace as namespace delimiter in a language that already uses whitespace as token/atom separator.
i cannot remember any other complang, that uses whitespace as namespace delimiter, most likely because virtually all languages already use whitespace to separate tokens.
Hyphens work, too, but two words against each other are less readable.
i'm fine with hyphen, underscore, CamelCase. i just don't like space.
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