Demaestro - 7:26 pm on Aug 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

My main issue as a developer/code junkie with the dashes is that a dash in programming language is almost always a math operator.

So when I see example1-example2 I read it as a variable named example1 being subtracted from example2.

A dash really isn't a delimiter in my opinion. Not when compared to the underscore especially. To me it is funny that a bunch of programmers decided that a math operator was a good text delimiter. Must make for some interesting code in places.

That being said I don't like the underscore as a delimiter in domain names... but for file names... the dash is just wrong. You bring that file name into a programming name space and it will start trying to do math operations on names.

[edited by: Demaestro at 7:30 pm (utc) on Aug. 10, 2007]