- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:35:40 -0700
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote: > Christoph Päper: >> >> I’m still a fan of using variable names verbatim, i.e. no prefix, no function notation, no nothing: [snip proposal] I don't see what the benefit to the author is of making variables be simple keywords. This would make it hard to spot variables in use, as they look just like every other keyword. It would make it confusing to combine with other keywords. It introduces the need for precedence rules which mean that *sometimes* an ident is a keyword and other times its a variable. This suggestion has a lot of bad usability problems, and the benefit is that you can omit a single character (the $ prefix). This seems pretty easy to reject. ~TJ
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