From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T23:30:58+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:27:23PM +0900, Rich wrote:
> I'd be interested to know *why* it is a language convention, and more
> important why it is a lanaguage convention that from this thread it
> seems rubyists vigorously insist upon?  For those of us who were
> "raised" with a language like Java (or as some on this list may say,
> brain damaged ;-), lowerCamelCase seems more pleasing to the eye than
> identifiers_with_underscores.

More to the point, from my point of view, it's easier to type without
being made unreadable (where it == lowerCamelCase) and actually uses
rather less keystrokes.

That being said, however, I tend to be willing to bend to convention on
matters like this: it makes collaboration easier.

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