From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-17T06:28:29+09:00
Subject: Re: camelCaseTo_ruby_case.rb ??

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob X" <bobx@linuxmail.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: camelCaseTo_ruby_case.rb ??


> Thomas S�ndergaard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'll be converting my ruby code from camelCase to ruby_case. Is there a
> > script out there to get me going?
>
> Forgive my ignorance. I know the difference of the two but *why* are you
> changing it? Did the Ruby consensus decided that is the way to code? Not
> a dig...I am a newbie to programming and so have no habits it this area.
> I really am just wondering the why of it.

I don't know that it's a consensus really, and I
think calling it ruby_case is a bit extreme.

Matz does prefer underscores, I think. camelCase
is used nowhere in the core AFAIK.

The worst way, of course, is to mix the two
according to no apparent logic... as I do.

Hal