From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-22T10:56:34+09:00
Subject: Re: CamelCase issues

On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:28 pm, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
| On Friday, October 22, 2004, 3:27:47 AM, trans. wrote:
| > Actually I would like to see Ruby move away from the significance of
| > capitalization if possible.
|
| The only significance of capitalisation in Ruby is a single rule:
|
|   * if it begins with a capital letter, it's (probably) a constant
|
| That's quite justifiable and shouldn't change, IMO.  The only change
| I'd like to see is the "(probably)" removed, which would outlaw
| methods like Kernel.Integer().

Understood. Consistency in whatever form is nice. I have a made a few 
different suggestions in the past related to this. On one occasion someone 
(and I can't recall who it was unfortunately) made a fair argument against 
dependency on capitalization, as it also hampers progression into 
internationalization. Perhaps that's too forward looking --maybe Ruby will 
never be coded in Bengali, for instance, or any other language which have no 
capitalized forms. But I would like to look in that direction at least.

T.