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Thread: Identifiers, the colon
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| Identifiers, the colon |
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2006-05-21 23:24:55 |
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> > ... But do we really need or want those colons? I'd be happy to see them
> > go
> > away. My main reason is the confusion that can arise if you write
>; > dense code like this:
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> > age:=55
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> What is actually wrong with saying that whitespace is important?
Maybe FORTRAN is still influencing things a little too much? 
> age := 55 is not ambiguous,
> age: = 55 is not ambiguous,
> age:=55 is ambiguous,
> so what?
Probably the best advice so far (if we even want to keep : as a legal
identifier char at all). I would much rather see Io be Io rather than
a slightly contorted ObjC.
Brian.
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