From: Eivind Eklund <eeklund@...>
Date: 2005-12-13T02:55:38+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

On 12/8/05, Rich <rjseagraves@gmail.com> 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.

I'll say why I tend to insist on it: Because more or less any
consistent convention makes it easier to work with code than having
code that is mixed between two or more different conventions.  Ruby
has a convention that is followed a lot, including being in all the
standard libraries.

This means that your code can either be single convention - following
that convention - or it can be multi-convention, by adding your own
style in addition to the standard one.  I consider single convention
to more or less always be better.

Eivind.