From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2005-08-04T03:51:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Style question: when to use underscores

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Bill

On 8/3/05, Mohammad Khan <mkhan@lextranet.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 19:09 +0900, Florian Frank wrote:
> > On 2005-08-02 16:26:04 +0900, EdUarDo wrote:
> > > francisrammeloo@hotmail.com wrote:
> > > >When should you use underscores to
> > > >separate words in variable names or
> > > >function definitions? Always?
> > >
> > > Never, I use capital letters to separate words.
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> > I use spaces to separate words:
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> > class A
> > define_method('foo bar') do
> > 'foo bar'
> > end
> > end
> > A.new.__send__ 'foo bar'
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> why not, just A.new.send 'foo bar' ?
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> MOhammad
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> > I think, you should use my way, too.
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Bill Atkins

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