From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2002-03-16T10:34:16+09:00
Subject: RE: camelCase and underscore_style

Marko Schulz [mailto:in6x059@public.uni-hamburg.de] 

> > ... 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.

I'd tend to agree in the general case... in my case, it was right on. I
was resisting the language instead of learning from it (not just with
respect to naming conventions). Perhaps my changing naming conventions
was just an evidence of taking the general advice to heart.


> > 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.

Yet another data point. But perhaps it's just those that don't have
capitalization in their native languages who have trouble with it. Does
Japanese have capitalization?


Nathaniel

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