From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-03-23T23:39:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:10:35 +0000, gabriele renzi wrote:
> il Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:53:59 +0100, Simon Strandgaard
> <neoneye@adslhome.dk> ha scritto::
> 
>>On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:41:56 +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
>>[snip] 
>>> Oh, and mostly unrelated: I hope this edition uses under_score notation 
>>> instead of camelCase. I know I was led astray by the Pickaxe in my 
>>> early days of Ruby programming :-/
>>> 
>>
>>I _avoid_ libraries which uses camelCase, luckily many of them
>>provide underscore aliases. Thus it would be really nice if Ruby2 enforced 
>>underscores for varnames + methodnames. I know this may be a religious 
>>subject...
>>
>>Maybe I should submit an RCR..  opinions/flames/benefits/drawbacks ?
> 
> well, we should ho the way a language for the OZ platform do (can't
> remember what)... just make any name, Name, N_A_M_E equivalent and
> kill this debates for ever :) 
> 

Jikes!   too much flexibility for me, it would take long time to
adapt my brain to recognize that 'N_a_M_e____'   is the same as 'name'


> Seriously, it would be nice to have some kind of Style Guidelines
> somewhere (like using CamelCase for classes and under_scores for
> methods, provide block form for accessing resource that need to be
> freed and so on)

Ruby enforces to a mild degree certain naming conventions.
CamelCase for classes.

Why not go the whole way and also enforce under_scores?

I find 'camelCase' with an initial lowercase letter, mixed 
with a few uppercase, ad-hoc. It was difficult to learn this notation, 
because letters were mixed. Its something which scares 
people when they look first time on a computer program.

I wish the best for newcomers to Ruby.

--
Simon Strandgaard