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2000 Oct 03
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(fwd) Re: the underscore ("_") in variable name
...nd it is below the natural
eye scan line of a line of text. It's easy to miss.
2) People do insist on using no spaces, and underscore is widely used
as a word-separator in other languages (and some editors highlight
accordingly). C programmers (but not the minority Pascal ones, I
guess) read word_another_word as a single name. People can't readily
unlearn this for one language whilst still using it for another.
So I agree with Alberto: it is easier to *read*, that is easier for the
eye-brain pattern recognition system to tokenize.
> the other hand, both "<" and "-" have...