From: "Mark J.Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T06:27:35+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@yakimaherald.com> writes:
>> The human eye picks out words by shape.  We use spaces between  
>> words to separate those shapes into easily digested chunks.   
>> OneLongWord is not a shape we are use to, so we have to stop and  
>> think.  Unfortunately, spaces aren't allowed in programming  
>> variables.  

I'd say, rather,
"*Fortunately*, spaces aren't allowed in programming variables."

Spaces *are* allowed in identifiers in AppleScript, while simultaneously being
used as separator, and the result can be quite confusing.  I pretty much don't
read AppleScript without using an IDE that underlines recognized identifiers:
an underlined space means the two underlined words on either side of it are all
one long identifier, while a non-underlined space means they're two separate
keywords.