[e-lang] Naming convention for variable holding an eventual reference

[Toby Murray]

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:21 -0700, Tyler Close wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Q.post(drum, 'bang', [ 1 ])
> >
> > From the perspective of a newbie looking at code which uses that
> > style, it sure uses an awful lot of "Q.fn(" everywhere which looks to
> > make the code less readable
> Ya, that bothers me too. It can be made a little better by adding the
> following preamble to your Javascript file
> 
> var page = Q.connect(window.location.toString())
> var drum = post(page, 'subject', [])
> var hits = get(drum, 'hits')
> 
> post(drum, 'bang', [ 1 ])
> 
> when(get(drum, 'hits'), function (value) {
>   print(value);
> }, function (reason) {
>   print('rejected: ' + reason);
> })
> 

This still looks worse (to me) than the original.

Can someone elaborate on the problem with _ in Caja?

Could one use "_r" (remote, or "ref") as a suffix instead? I presume
this sort of thing has been dismissed for reasons unknown.