From: Nat Pryce <nat.pryce@...13media.com>
Date: 2002-10-31T21:09:54+09:00
Subject: Re: feature idea: custom literals

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 00:30, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Although I like this idiom (and suggested it myself earier, albeit
> Vector[1,2,3]), I find it strange to see method names with capital letters.
> 
> That is, when I was first trying to determine how the Integer() function works
> (e.g. Integer("0123") -> 83), it took me a significant amount of time and
> frustration to track it down.

Very good point.  That just goes to show how hard it is to write code
that is legible to yourself, and easy for others to maintain.
 
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