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in thread Syntax Highlighting Editors Beware

if we could have variable names $with spaces in them = 1

What about printing that variable in an interpolated string, and confusion with a variable named $with? 

my $with = 2;
my $with spaces in them = 4;
print "$with spaces in them\n";

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I know in Perl/Gtk2 there is some confusion with signal and property names with - in them, but it's resolved by automatically converting them to underscores. 

’key-press-mask’  and ’key_press_mask’

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are interpreted as the same thing.

I think a space should be a space, and not have any sort of hidden connector usage, what's wrong with underscores? Yeah, that reminds me of tabs and Python.....yuck.

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Re^4: Syntax Highlighting Editors Beware
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 09, 2008 at 18:13 UTC

    Ah! Now you thought about that for more than my recommended 30 seconds didn't you?

    After another 30 seconds of deep meditation I divine that the obvious thing to do is disambiguate them in usual way. Just quote them!

    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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      Then you bring up the problem of multiple nested quotes when you mix vars_with_spaces and constants 
      my $with = 2;
my $with spaces in them = 4;

#which is more readable?
print "$with spaces in them  "$with spaces in them"\n";
#or 
print "$with spaces in them  $with_spaces_in_them\n";

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      You will never convince me that spaces in variable names makes things better. Microsoft's mistake number 1 was \r\n as a linefeed, mistake number 2 was spaces in variables and filenames.
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