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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd much rather see a single consistent style throughout the setting > than backwards compatibility with p5 naming conventions. > > If Temporal is the first setting module to use multiword identifiers, > I vote for hyphens. As another data point ... me too. I'd prefer to see hyphens than underscores. -Scott > They're easier on the fingers and the eyes; > underscores have always felt like an ugly compromise to make the > compiler's job easier. > > On Saturday, April 10, 2010, Carl Mäsak <cmasak@gmail.com> wrote: > > John (>): > >> Forgive me if this is a question the reveals how poorly I've been > >> following Perl 6 development, but what's the deal with some methods > >> using hyphen-separated words (e.g., day-of-week) while others use > >> "normal" Perl method names (e.g., set_second)? > > > > I'd just like to point out that the current Temporal spec only does > > methods with underscores, including C<day_of_week>. > > > > This goes against my personal preferences; I greatly prefer dashes in > > almost all of the code I write. But I acknowledge that most of the > > programmers out there seem to expect underscores -- and also, the aim > > was to produce a small delta from CPAN's DateTime and not change > > around things ad lib. > > > > // Carl > > > > -- > Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> >Thread Previous | Thread Next