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Re: [GCC-MELT-137] Re: [MELT] split_string_* functions now take a value
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:46:38 +0200
Romain Geissler <romain.geissler@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/8/2 Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>:
> > Please use capitals for macrovariables in
> > macrostrings
>
> Ok.
>
> Can i have more details about that: is it just a Melt convention or is
> it an implementation requirement (in other word, does melt awaits
> macrovariables to be upper case ?)
Just a coding (social) convention. Macrovariables are very important, and my editor
(emacs) and mode (lisp-mode) don't highlight them.
Since macrovariables are really MELT symbols, their case don't matter (the MELT reader
force them to upper cases). But they are more human-readable in upper cases.
Cheers.
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