From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2002-03-16T10:20:42+09:00
Subject: Re: camelCase and underscore_style

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:14:30AM +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
> Guy N. Hurst [mailto:gnhurst@hurstlinks.com] wrote:
> 
> > Actually, there was a discussion about this last year 
> > somewhere and it was concluded by those involved that 
> > underscore_style was for 
> > verbs (methods), and CamelCase was for nouns (like classes). 
> > This is not a requirement, of course, but seems consistent 
> > with what I have come to expect, and is what I follow. 

Last fall there was a discussion on Ruby Garden, spawned by a proposed
Ruby Coding Convention: http://www.rubygarden.org/article.php?sid=134

> ... when someone at the RubyConf said that when he saw someone using
> camelCase in their code, he identified them as not having fully grokked
> Ruby. 

Sounds stupid to me.

> One comment I read in the list a while back about camelCase vs.
> underscores that I thought was interesting is that for non-native
> English speakers, underscore names are much easier to read.

I heard that before too, but could never comprehend it. I am not a
native English speaker and prefer camelCase.

-- 
marko schulz