Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why shouldn't variable names be capitalized?

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Martin Percossi wrote:

I agree that naming can be abused. But I think it should be *me*, the programmer, or in the limit ghc, the glorious compiler (but only because of unresolvable ambiguities), who decides it -- not *you*, the language implementor!!! ;-)

The ML constructor/variable ambiguity introduces a nasty maintenance headache: what if you upgrade to a new version of a library which introduces a new constructor which happens to be the same as a variable you have been using? Suddenly the meaning of your functions changes! Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ FISHER: WEST OR NORTHWEST 4 OR 5 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 OR 4. FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD.