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I just started learning Janet, and one of the things I really like is being able to use '-' in variable names. I didn't realize how much friction snake-case or camel case, ie having to use shift in var names, generate. It's a small thing, but a thing that differentiates lisps and algols.

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I love kebab case. I want it everywhere.

I discovered recently that bash function names and aliases allow -

  pi@4b:~ $ kebab-case-ftw () { echo yum; }
  pi@4b:~ $ kebab-case-ftw 
  yum
  pi@4b:~ $ alias kebab-kebob='echo yum'
  pi@4b:~ $ kebab-kebob 
  yum

Doesn't work for variable names:

  $ foo-bar=3
  foo-bar=3: command not found

Consistency in Unix? Sacrilege.

Make is better in this regard. You can have variables with . in them and with computed variables, that can simulate structures. $($(VAR).member). $(VAR) expands to some abc, and so the $(abc.member) evaluates that variable with a dot in its name.

Same. Outside of Lisp & some shell, you've got the OG Cobol and Raku. HTML attrs? CSS? It's a shame really. So easy to type and read.

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