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psychoslave ◴[28 Mar 25 10:22 UTC] No.43503594[source]▶

If you are looking for alternative to kebab case to write identifier in programming language which reserve the - (U+002d) as an operator, chances are good you can use · (U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT), that we use in middot case.

So isMorePleasantToRead, is_more_pleasant_to_read or is·more·pleasant·to·read is up to you.

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thomasjb ◴[28 Mar 25 11:46 UTC] No.43504170[source]▶

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This is intriguing to me, do you know which (programming) languages tolerate this?

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1. steveklabnik ◴[28 Mar 25 18:08 UTC] No.43508388[source]▶

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The reason this works in Rust is that Rust follows Unicode's categorization of which code points are useful as identifiers: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/

MIDDLE DOT is Other_ID_Continue

I know less about the other languages but it wouldn't surprise me if they did similar things.

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