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26 lines
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h1. How can I help?
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For beginners I suggest to implement missing parts of the library:
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* (number) formatting
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* locale support
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* conversion between character sets
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* bignums
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* FTP, SMTP or other Internet protocols
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* a lean GUI library
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h1. Will Nimrod have block comments?
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Most probably not. Reasons for avoiding them are:
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* If proper block comments exist, they should be nestable. This means you cannot tokenize Nimrod with regular expressions anymore.
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* The editor can be used to put "#" in front of every line.
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* "when false" is not a bad solution. At least syntax is still checked for deactivated code.
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* discard """ """" is another solution.
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h1. Why is it case/style insensitive?
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* Identifiers which only differ in case are bad style. If the programming language treats them the same the programmer needs to come up with with different names for different things.
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* Case insensitivity is widely considered to be more user friendly. This holds for file systems, configuration files, and programming languages.
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* Many programming languages are case insensitive: Lisp, Basic, Pascal, Ada, Eiffel, Fortran. Since software for aircrafts and power plants has been written in Ada, it seems reasonable to assume that case insensitivity will not not destroy civilisation.
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* Note that most people confuse case sensitivity with case consistency (which is indeed good style). However, case consistency is easier to achieve with case insensitivity and a properly configured IDE than with case sensitivity.
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