OpenEuphoria

Re: Aesthetically pleasing identifier names

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Mar 04, 2005
• 516 views

Brent W. Hughes wrote:
> 
> 
> Still years later, I began to see people using case to separate the individual
> words
> in an identifier name.  I tried it.  My function would now be called
> "SetMenuBar".
>  I found my code to be more readable and much more aesthetically pleasing.  In
>  fact,
> I have become a convert to this way of naming identifiers.  As a convert, I am
> now
> trying to get others to see the light so that it will be easier to read their
> code.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Brent
> 

Hi Brent,

"SetMenuBar"

Yes, that's a good method and there's even a name for it...it's called
"CamelBack" capitalization.
I use this all the time but combine with understores to show higher
level hierarchy.  For example, if i have a lot of buttons in my prog
i might do this:

Button_ExitNumberOne
Button_ResetCalculator

Combined with namespace identifiers you get several levels of
hierarchy without too much effort (as in the WinClass Library).



Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

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