[ruby-talk:6327] Re: What would a Ruby browser look like?

Charles Hixson writes:

# 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.

Well, with one exception, Aleksi has already pretty much expressed my 
comments on this. (And I guess I haven't encountered the sorts of 
auxiliary programs that you mention.)

The one exception is probably very much a matter of personal aesthetics: I 
very strongly prefer underscores for easy readability. To me the 
alternative looks like a hard-to-read, crunched together kludge, and the 
secondary words look incorrectly capitalized, and I find it much easier to 
type one shift character repeatedly (i.e. "_") than random shifted 
letters. 

All I can say is that I find it interesting and puzzling that apparently 
many other people apparently don't agree (but I have no idea of what % of 
Ruby users care one way or another, if at all). If it weren't for the 
already fairly common use of "_" in Ruby already (and if Matz didn't care 
one way or the other), I would otherwise simply suggest voting on this, 
and go along with the result.

Conrad Schneiker
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