From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-01-21T09:40:13+09:00
Subject: Re: camelCase vs ruby_case

From: "Zach" <zacharooni@comcast.net>
>
>    I know the current naming standards of the language. My curiosity is 
> how many programmers prefer it.

Personally, I like Ruby's naming standards.  I prefer snake_case to 
camelCase in general, so that helps.  But an important point is, I think,
that it's better to adopt the naming standards of whatever language
I'm coding in.  In Java, I follow Sun's naming conventions.  We've seen
posts from Ruby programmers who stick with their own style, regardless
of language.  That's their prerogative, but if one is writing library code
to share with the Ruby community, I think it's especially important to be
willing to adopt the Ruby naming conventions.  It's always a sinking
feeling (for me anyway) to download what might be a nice open source
Ruby library, and find the author was either unaware of the Ruby 
naming conventions, or decided to disregard them, thereby putting
unnecessary burden on all users of the library.  Makes me want to
scream, "Oh! You inconsiderate miserable b****rd!!!!" - but that is
always tempered by, "But, thanks for the free code!"  <grin>

Anyway, "When in Rome, ..." etc.


Regards,

Bill