From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-02-26T02:59:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Appropriate use of camelCase

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> The trick here, though, is that Ruby has a style: two-space indentation, no 
> tabs. If you write a library that you want included in the standard library, 
> you need to conform to the style there.

And I agree with you here.  If I were writing code that was going to be in 
the standard library, I'd go through the pain of conforming my style to 
the described "Ruby" style so that it fits in with the rest of the code.

When writing the code that keeps my family fed, though, it is far too hard
to make sure my Perl adhere's the the described Perl community's style,
and my Java to the described Java community's style, and my Ruby to Ruby
style, and my Bash scripts to yet a different style, and my C to....  
It's too many completely arbitrary styles.  Far better for me to use the
style that fits best with the way I work and the way that I read code and
to do so consistently across everything that I have to produce and to
maintain.

If anything that I write ever becomes interesting enough to other people 
that I have people actually using it and looking at the code, then I will 
find it worthwhile, for those items, to make a pass through them 
converting the abhorred camelCase to snake_case and tabs to spaces and 
everything else necessary to fit into the described Ruby style.

Thanks for the discussion.  It's been fun.


Kirk Haines