From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-03-24T02:44:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 02:27:23 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
> 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.
> 

In Ruby I don't feel a need to distinguish between methods and variables.
However in C++ I do use CamelCase to identify functions and under_scores to
identify variables, but thats because functions in C++ needs to be
supplied a (); suffix.

In Ruby there is no need for a (); suffix. A few times I have found myself
changing a variable into a method. I didn't have to change anything,
it made me relieved.

Why distinguish between methods and variables ?

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Simon Strandgaard