CamelCase versus wide_names (Prothon)

[Dan Bishop]

"Michael Geary" <Mike at DeleteThis.Geary.com> wrote in message news:<107tjp2qvgof4b0 at corp.supernews.com>...
> Kevin Altis wrote:
> > If you're using PEP 8 terminology then CamelCase is different
> > than mixedCase. CamelCase is often used for class names and
> > mixedCase for everything else.
> 
> Just to add to the confusing terminology, in some circles mixed case with an
> initial lowercase letter is called camelCase, while mixed case with initial
> uppercase is called PascalCase. :-)

Is there really a standard case convention for Pascal?  What's the
point of having one for a case-insensitive language?
 
> The initial capital letter actually has significance in Prothon (I
> think--unless that has changed). So the question is whether to use
> NamesLikeThis and namesLikeThis, or Names_like_this and names_like_this.

I prefer [Nn]amesLikeThis.  Except for module_names.