From: Francois Paul <francois@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T23:59:35+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

lower<shift>camel<shift>case

lower<shift>-camel<shift>-case

but for the readability i'd type the two extra keystrokes every time!

Joe Van Dyk wrote:

>On 12/8/05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
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>>On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:27:23PM +0900, Rich wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>Don't see how using lowerCamelCase uses less keystrokes than
>lower_camel_case.  I pressed 16 keys to type of of them.  :-)
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