From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-12-03T02:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: variable names

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Doug Stone <dstone@concerro.com> wrote:
<snip>
advantageous to be able to distinguish aVariableName from avariablename?
> thanks,
> doug
>

I would not say it is advantageous. Maybe one could argue about
a_variable_name vs. AVariableName (bad example for camel case I guess)
It is a matter of taste, ... [computer! erase the last sentence!]
It is a matter of style and convention, Ruby has chosen the former
style and about everybody I know sticks to it. Note that camel case is
used for constants and that helps us to distinguish those two;)

thus in Ruby it is my_variable and MyConst. in Java it would be
MyVariable and MYCONST
I believe the Ruby style is more readable but that might be because I
read almost infinitely more ruby code than Java code :P.

Cheers
Robert


-- 
The 1,000,000th fibonacci number contains '42' 2039 times; that is
almost 30 occurrences more than expected (208988 digits).
N.B. The 42nd fibonacci number does not contain '1000000' that is
almost the expected 3.0e-06 times.