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pitaj on Dec 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hyperpolyglot

> capitalized top-level identifiers are exported

I saw this and thought that it's just weird and confusing. Why would someone make case-sensitivity a syntax for exports?

tedunangst on Dec 28, 2016 | [–]

One less keyword in the language, and you can tell at the call site whether it's an internal function.

liveoneggs on Dec 28, 2016 | [–]

it's also used in erlang and haskell, which happen to also use "_" for "don't care"

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