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Re: rough first impressions

mvanier@cs.caltech.edu wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:12:24 -0400
From: Jonathan Bachrach <jrb@ai.mit.edu>
    
actually what i was thinking was changing goo over to using case 
sensitivity and having all caps be the convention for types.  this 
saves characters and is pretty standard and lets you name the 
constructors by lowercasing the type name.  lots of lispers object to 
case sensitivity and using the shift key (except to type parentheses).

    

It seems reasonable to have a different namespace for types.  I think
all-caps is PRETTY HEAVY THOUGH.  What about having the first letter
capitalized?  Many languages (prolog, ocaml, haskell) use this convention
for various purposes.

Yuck.  I thought we'd moved beyond this kind of syntax.  Fortran variables that begin with i-n are integers, Basic variables that end with $ are strings....

Case sensitivity detracts from readability. As do short abbreviations that don't mean anything.

But I guess I'm an old fogey who likes to read words.