From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-03-24T02:27:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> 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...

Trying to understand your religion here.  If both methods and variables 
are named with underscores, not camel case how do you distinguish beween 
a method that instructs something to read a certain number, and a 
variable which keeps track of how many times something was read. 
read_number vs. read_number.

If you name the method "readNumber" it is clear that it's a method, and 
that "read_number" is the variable.  That's why I think 
camelCaseWithLeadingLowercase is better for methods.

Ben