From: Sammy Larbi <sam@...>
Date: 2007-06-21T23:51:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Code Critique: check if int or float

ole __ wrote, On 6/20/2007 5:51 PM:
> Thanks Tim and Marcel.
>
> Would you have thought String.i? and String.f? would make more sense 
> than Integer() and Float(). But yeah they will probably make for a 
> better implementation then the regexps.
>
>   
>> And about camelCase, it's true, almost no one in Ruby uses
>> camelCase. I'd recommend just going with the flow and adoption
>> lowercase_and_underscored.
>>     
>
> I won't be so easily converted. It's more characters, the character is a 
> stretch on the keyboard and they are harder to read. Underscores seem 
> backward to me.
>
>   

I found that you pick them up quickly and it isn't any harder than 
reaching for shift after a while - it's just repetition that's needed to 
memorize it.  Besides that, generally I think its good to stick to the 
conventions of a particular community.  So, when I write Java, I use 
Java conventions, and when I write Ruby, I use Ruby conventions.

It was weird at first, but I picked it up in no time.