CamelCase versus wide_names (Prothon)

Robert Brewer fumanchu at amor.org
Thu Apr 15 12:35:09 EDT 2004


Mark Hahn wrote:
> We have agreed in Prothon that unlike Python we are going to be 100%
> consistant in our var and method naming.

Until the unforeseen happens, of course. ;)

> Now we are in the midst of a discussion of camelCase versus 
> wide_names...of course in the Python world you already have
> wide_names as your standard, but could you for the moment
> pretend you were picking your standard from scratch (as we
> are doing in the Prothon world) and give your vote for which
> you'd prefer?

Not a vote, just an observation: if you use file names for object names
(as in Python, one file per module), you're probably going to want to
specify all_lowercase_wide_names to avoid case-sensitivity issues on
various platforms.


FuManChu




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