Re: [pure-lang-users] null

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Albert Graef wrote:
> John Lunney wrote:
>> If Albert doesn't like the trailing ?, then I think isMatrix is a  
>> pretty decent compromise!
> 
> Albert doesn't like CamelCase either. ;-)

Just to clarify: I do like the -?, it's pretty suggestive for
predicates. I'm only concerned with keeping the lexical syntax clean.
Which isn't an issue in Scheme because it can be far more liberal in
what is allowed in identifiers. But it just doesn't work that way in
languages with infix operator syntax, at least not if you also allow the
programmer to define his own operator symbols. Comparing the benefits of
the -? predicate syntax against user-defined operators, for me the
latter far outweigh the former.

Albert

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