[danso]

Not dumb at all...it's just that assuming that we spend more time re-reading code than we do in the initial writing of it, saving the keystroke from hyphen-to-understroke seems like premature optimization :).

Good to know that Pyret requires spacing between the other operators. That does help a lot, and an argument could be made that it forces folks to not do `a-b` when they mean `a - b`.

[yoz-y]

Personally I find that hyphen-separated identifiers are more readable than when they have underscores. When dabbling in perl6 I got accustomed to then very quickly. And forcing people to put spaces around binary operators is definitely a plus.