Re: Proposal to expand set of operator words

Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
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> On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Victor Luchangco wrote:
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>> On May 30, 2008, at 2:41 AM, dmitrey wrote:
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>>> I would propose you another modification - to omit the rule "all 
>>> that is uppercase w/o digits is operator"
>>> this brings problems with manual & automatic code translation to 
>>> fortress (because these names should be changed).
>>>
>>> for example I have a set of names (Python class constructors) "NLP", 
>>> "LP", "QP" etc (that are well-known names of optimization problems 
>>> classes), and using upper-case makes code more readable and 
>>> understandable than "nlp", "lp", etc (and, of course, much better 
>>> than _NLP_, NLP_ etc)
>>
>> Yeah, that all-caps names with two or more distinct letters cannot be 
>> identifiers has always bothered me a bit.  Here's an idea that isn't 
>> fully worked out yet that I'd like to hear what people think about:
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> Oddly, I've only had this problem with type names.
>
> There's one very real downside: I can't parse code visually.  That is, 
> I can't quickly tell the operator names from the variable names.
In essential fortress IDE it could be easily solved via different colors 
for variables and/or functions and/or operators.
Regards, D.