OT snake_case

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Oct 26 14:21:12 EDT 2015


On 2015-10-25 23:43, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 23/10/2015 17:53, MRAB wrote:
>> I just discovered today that writing names in lowercase with
>> underscores is sometimes called "snake case".
>>
>> Seems kind of apt for Python! :-)
>>
>> Apparently, it was coined in the Ruby community...
>
> So when I get around to forking Python to produce 2.8 the name will have
> to be Camel :)  Or is that already taken?
>
There's Caml, of which OCaml is the main implementation, so it might be
confusing.

Also, a camel (dromedary) is used on the cover of the Perl book
published by O'Reilly.




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