From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-03-16T09:26:47+09:00
Subject: Re: camelCase and underscore_style

Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> I agree completely with those two (classes and methods)... the hard ones
> for me are variable names and file names. Variable names are tough
> because they have a way of turning in to method names, i.e. I have an
> instance variable, and I decide to expose it, thus it's a variable name
> AND a method name. I've decided to go with underscores for all my
> variables for exactly this reason. I suppose I could still use camelCase
> for temporary variables, but I think madness lies that way.

I use underscore for variables because of prefixing and other symbolic
operations:

  thing --> next_thing
  array --> sum_array

Preserving the relationship is good both for human readability and for
machine readability (e.g. case-sensitive greps).