From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T00:04:31+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

On 12/8/05, Francois Paul <francois@bagasie.com> wrote:
> lower<shift>camel<shift>case
>
> lower<shift>-camel<shift>-case
>
> but for the readability i'd type the two extra keystrokes every time!

doh, you're right.  i need my coffee.

> Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>
> >On 12/8/05, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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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> >
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