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"I did this because I hate uppercase characters in the middle of identifiers and I'm too lazy to type shift to get the '_'. In addition, I find it more readable."

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hitting - is not significantly easier than hitting _ when compared to hitting the spacebar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts_law

This is yet another reason I enjoy typing in Dvorak :) (-_ is in a better place)

I honestly thought you'd posted a snippet of smalltalk or lisp or something for a second there. I think some people refer to that as a "brainfart."

(Note that I have no practical knowledge of either language. I probably wouldn't have admitted this if I did.)

Haha! I'm on Dvorak too and didn't understand at all why JohnnyCache thought hitting "-" was so much harder than Space! I guess I've been completely converted for too long.

Well, use Whitespace then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

but then you sacrifice the "-" (minus) infix operator

Unless it's surrounded by spaces, which it probably should be anyway. Compare these pathological cases for either approach:

    one-thing - another-thing

vs.

    one thing-another thing

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