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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by kungtotte on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:25PM (#21394437)
Nim is actually case sensitive on the first character only, so your list of identifiers are not all equivalent. Just thought I'd point that out for correctness sake.
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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by Stratoscope on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:31PM (#21394453)
Oh, thank you for the correction, and sorry for the misinformation!

In any case (pun intended?) it's the underscore insensitivity that makes it difficult to use standard search tools.

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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by PMunch on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:36AM (#21396532)
Again just for correctness your last identifier isn't legal in Nim. You aren't allowed to start an identifier with an underscore, and you can't have two underscores together.
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Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language by atilaneves on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:32AM (#21397476)
> it's the underscore insensitivity that makes it difficult to use standard search tools.

I personally don't like the feature, but what do you find difficult about using /my_?[vV]ariable/ to search for any of myvariable, my_variable or myVariable?

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