From: Francois Paul Date: 2005-12-08T23:39:40+09:00 Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl conventions make it easier for collaboration. If you are not interested in sharing code, or can't forsee anybody else having to maintain your code - then obviously do as you wish. but if you were to submit to collaborative projects or you want to learn from reading other people's code it would be wize to follw the conventions. The conventions help readability in the sense that different 'parts of speach' is obvious to the eye. 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. > >On 12/8/05, James Edward Gray II wrote: > > >>On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Chris Game wrote: >> >> >> >>>Who says? Just a style/convention issue surely. Readability doesn't >>>suffer, nor does execution. >>> >>> >>It's not a syntax rule of Ruby, no. But part of learning a language >>is learning to speak it as the native speakers do. >> >>James Edward Gray II >> >> >> >> > > > >