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Re: Aesthetically pleasing identifier names

• Posted by Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com> Mar 04, 2005
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> I used to use CamelCaps but now I've switched to foo_bar instead of FooBar for
> most identifiers. However, it depends on the language I'm using as I try to keep
> a similar naming convention to how the language tends to do it (although I can't
> stand fooBar since I think it's stupid to leave the first character of a word
> you'd normally capitalize lowercase even though you capitalize everything else,
> Java does this). In Euphoria it's almost always foo_bar since all the standard
> libraries use this method.

For me, its not the language I'm using, but the platform (since
Euphoria is cross-platform). For Windows, I tend to use Derek's
Notation, even if I'm not using Win32Lib. Objects, such as control
id's and control type constants, start with a capital letter and use
CamelCaps style. Routines, however start with a lower case letter and
the first letter of every word is capitalized. Of course even Derek
strays from this from time to time...

DN Prefixes:
    k - global constant
    v - global variable
    l - local variable (routine-level)
    p - parameter (routine-level)
    Printer, Screen - Objects
    setHandler(), getCtlSize() - Routines

Again, this is only in Windows. For DOS and Linux, I still uses Robert
Craig's Notation. This is a more simple (can I say that?) notation.
Constants are expressed in all caps, and routines and variables are
all lower case, with each word separated by an underscore. Library
routines may be grouped by using the same prefix (db_) for database.e.

    TRUE, FALSE - constants
    get_vector(), db_fatal_id - routines, variables

~Greg