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Ask HN: Non-Lisps that use kebab case (i.e., identifiers-like-this)?
3 points by networked on Feb 12, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Do you know any non-Lisp languages other than Dylan, Perl 6, LiveScript and (to an extent) Tcl that support or maybe even encourage kebab case identifiers?


There is some debate as to the correct name for this convention: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11273282/whats-the-name-f....


Hyphens aren't case, so calling it anything-case is silly. Whether underscores or dashes separate (or a mixture of both) is orthogonal to whether identifiers are case sensitive, and whether that is exploited.

123-456 is an identifier in ANSI Common Lisp; nothing in its name has case. FOO-BAR and foo-bar produce the same symbol under the default read-table; case is folded and so not involved.


GNU Make.




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