[r6rs-discuss] JAR statement

[John Cowan]

Grant Rettke scripsit:

> 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 "-""

That's true: "-" is always the subtraction/negation sign.  But you can
use underscores in identifiers.  (I agree that "-" is better than "_",
but only epsilon better.)

Cobol, like the Lisps, is whitespace-sensitive, and thus distinguishes
between a-b (an identifier) and a - b (an expression).

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