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A Great Idea

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-28 4:52

Hey /prog/, I just had a great idea. Let's use a double space (space space) as the delimiter between identifiers so we can have identifiers with spaces in them.

An example:
(defun  add to deck  (card  deck)
  (cons  card  deck))

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-28 16:11

>>30
Here's a   thought,  how are you as     a human being parsing
the text      that I
 am reading? You are delimiting the words by space, are you giving much thought to the amount of spacing? Since, in a large number of languages (both formal and natural) we give little to no meaning to space, it would require quite a large amount of personal discipline to get used to a seperate system. Not to mention it would fuck with your typing as a larger percentage of the time, you would be having to press space twice. Even if you provided some sort of editor support for this, I don't see it ever catching on.

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