From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-03-24T13:34:06+09:00
Subject: Re: proposal - enforce lower_case for variables and methods

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> Ruby does already enforce CamelCase for class/modules.
#-- Begin example ---
class Not_camel_case
   def foo
     puts "Hello."
   end
end


Not_camel_case.new.foo
#------- End -----


This works fine for me.  Where is CamelCase enforced?


> 
....


> Should I submit an RCR about this ?
> Resistance ?  any good reasons to use camelCase ?

First submit an RCR for required indentation and significant white 
space.  I'd feel the same way about that.  :)


There are various cases where I want to map some string from the outside 
world to a method invocation.  For example, when stream processing XML.
Any restrictions on naming makes this harder, particularly if I don't 
control the naming conventions for the source XML.

I want fewer syntax restrictions, not more.

James