From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-03-16T18:16:11+09:00
Subject: Re: camelCase and underscore_style

Hi,

In message "Re: camelCase and underscore_style"
    on 02/03/16, Marko Schulz <in6x059@public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

|> ... 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.

Most of Ruby standard libraries using non camel case for names except
class/module names.

|> 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.

Maybe because your language is close enough to English.
How lucky you are, really.

							matz.