[r6rs-discuss] JAR statement

[Grant Rettke]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:14 AM, David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/21 Thomas Lord <lord at emf.net>:
>>> >>   Type type = new Type();
>>> > What asshat writes that kind of code?
>>> Every Java and C# programmer out there.
>> Oh, THEM... well, good then.  They don't come
>> around here.  There's nothing to worry about.
>
> ummm...some of us programming polyglots do it all the time in certain
> languages.

The problem with Java and C# is that I am pretty sure that it is
impossible to utilize the suggested naming conventions from Scheme
where:

"By convention, the components of compound names are separated by "-""

> It actually goes back to a Smalltalk convention where you
> named parameters to distfix operators "aType". It actually made for
> very readable code.

Camel-case is not a problem in those language; it is the lack of
dash-separated variable names support, rather.