From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2000-11-14T05:39:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6321] Re: What would a Ruby browser look like?

Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM wrote:

> Matz writes:
>
> # In message "[ruby-talk:6111] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby"
> #     on 00/11/07, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> #
> # |> How about default, defaults or defaulting (I like the last).
> # |
> # |I'd call it "nilGives" or "nil_gives", etc.  I think default leaves too
> # |much open -- it depends on how your objects are made as to what their
> # |defualt value is.
> #
> # I agree with that `default' is too broad.  And both `nilGives' (case
> # mixture; third person) and 'nil_gives (third person) are not Rubyish
> # neither.
>
> nilDefault or nil_default?
>
> Conrad Schneiker
> (This note is unofficial and subject to improvement without notice.)

I really prefer avoiding underscores in names.  Internal capitalization
provides all the break needed for easy reading, and many auxiliary programs
split the parts of an underscored name separately.


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