From: Zach <zacharooni@...>
Date: 2006-01-21T06:53:27+09:00
Subject: Re: camelCase vs ruby_case

    I know the current naming standards of the language. My curiosity is 
how many programmers prefer it.

Prime example given by a few: snake_case is preferable to Japanese Readers.

-Zach

Eero Saynatkari wrote:

>Zach wrote:
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>>Alrighty,
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>>    I've another question I'd like to pose the Ruby community. Coming
>>from a Java background, so I'm rather used to "camelCase" as opposed to
>>what looks to be the standard "ruby_case". (For those who don't know, If
>>a method is java was named "DoSomething"  it would be called
>>"doSomething" in Java, and likewise "do_something" in Ruby.)
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>>Arguments I've personally witnessed against Camel Case is Acronyms. If I
>>have an "ABC" in Camel Case it I'd have to would be to break up the
>>acronym like "aBC" if it appears at the beginning of the word. A lot of
>>people try to push the word to the end, others say to have the whole
>>acronym as lowercase "abc", but I think that is just a workaround for
>>the problem not a solution.
>>
>>Once I started programming in ruby, I was a little surprised at the use
>>of the underscore, but I'm wondering the sentiments of the programmers
>>out there. Do you prefer word breaks by underscore or case? Does is look
>>more readable? Does anything else irk you with Camel Case and/or Ruby's
>>preference?
>>
>>Not trying to incite flame_wars or the like, looking for honest 
>>opinions.
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>The big thing is that Ruby attaches semantic meaning to the naming
>scheme: all constants must start with an uppercase letter, so your
>classes and modules have CamelCaseNames. Because of this, seeing
>something like obj.MethodName or even obj.methodName causes a ruby
>programmer an involuntary double-take to ensure it indeed refers to
>a method, not a constant. For this reason (and others that have been
>battled over pretty much since the keyboard was invented), it is
>preferred that the following is used:
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>  * Classes and modules use CamelCase
>  * Constants use ALL_CAPS
>  * Methods and variables use underscored_names
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>>-Zach
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