CamelCase versus wide_names (Prothon)

OKB (not okblacke) BrenBarn at aol.com
Thu Apr 15 11:50:01 EDT 2004


Mark Hahn wrote:

> Of course in the Python world you alread 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?

    	camelCase, hands down.  Underscores are much too difficult to type, 
and in my opinion should be avoided except when you WANT a hard-to-type 
identifier (as with private variables, etc.).

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