"Richard O'Keefe"
You mean to parse a - b differently then a-b? You don't have the problem in LISP as AFAIR you use (- a b) but in Haskell it would be a problem.
Haskell already has this problem with ".", where we generally need
(As somebody pointed out, this is usually unambigous)
to put spaces around "." with the meaning "composition" and not put spaces around other uses.
With implicit parameters, this also goes for (?). Is anybody using that extension still?
It's a problem that COBOL solved a long time ago: COMPUTE INCREASED-DEBT = TOTAL-EXPENSES - AFTER-TAX-INCOME.
That we all program in COBOL these days shows how important this issue is :-)
Given the amazinglyUglyAndUnreadably baStudlyCaps namingStyle that
I prefer underscored_words myself, but just like periods for hierarchical modules, this is water under the bridge. In sum, perhaps the net effect of this convention is positive: it encourages short variable names. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants