From: "Mark J. Reed" Date: 2004-02-25T00:49:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Appropriate use of camelCase Gavin Kistner writes: >Further, consistency is important not just within my own code, but >within the community if I plan on ever contributing back. So I want to >learn to be consistent with whatever prevalent pseudo-standard may >exist. True. However, the standard only matters at the interface level. As long as you use snake_case for your methods and PUBLIC_CONSTANTS, you're free to use camelCase for private local variables if you like. :) -Mark