From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T01:29:48+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features?

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Horea Raducan <hraducan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can tell you what feature/style recommendation I hate the most. Using "_"
> instead of camel notation makes the language too verbose. If you want to
> give some meaningful names to a method or variable, if you use more than two
> underscores, it looks loooooooong. Ruby is so elegant in so many ways, why
> do we have to subject ourselves to the ugliness of "_" ? You might say that
> nobody is forcing me, but being the purist that I am I want a total
> immersion in the language. And it looks like the leaders recommend using
> this notation. Is everybody happy with the ugly_like_hell_notation ?

I think this is a matter of opinion and getting used to things,
there's no right or wrong here.
I am quite happy with that notation. For my eyes it's easier to parse
the words because they are physically separated. For me it's
beautiful_like_heaven_notation, as opposed to uglyLikeHellNotation :-)

Jesus.