[Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Fri Dec 11 05:05:32 EST 2009


> there is enough experimentally determined about reading in general to
> be certain that visible gaps between words materially improves
> readability, and internal capital letters harm it.

Here is a (slightly mischievous) proposal.

Allow the Unicode non-breaking space character (  in HTML) as a  
valid character in a varid or conid.

:-)

Regards,
     Malcolm



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