From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T06:46:23+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features?

On 16.02.2009 18:48, Horea Raducan wrote:
> In my opinion a well managed project will use whatever style convention is
> predominant in the language of choice. So I am stuck with the ugly
> convention. Maybe it is just me, looks like no other people complain. But it
> is like a thorn in my eye and I think it reduces the expressiveness of the
> language, it almost forces us to use short/non-expressive names for methods
> and variables.

That's interesting, I see it the other way round: because we have 
underscores as clear separators between parts of an identifier we can 
use short names (e.g. #to_s as compared to Java's toString(), #to_a etc.).

Having said that I do not really care much and follow the rule you 
posted: just blend with whatever convention is present in the language 
of choice.  Readability - especially for others - is more important than 
feelings about ugliness.  In a project with at least two developers you 
can be pretty sure that whatever convention you choose it will hurt at 
least one of them in the eye. :-)

Kind regards

	robert