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Re: Aesthetically pleasing identifier names

• Posted by "danielmoyer" <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Mar 06, 2005
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> posted by: D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com>
>
> 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.
>

I usually use fooBar style for variables *local* to a routine, just in case
I (foolishly?) might refer to a non-local variable in the same routine,
which would be FooBar style; that way I can tell at a glance what scope they
have.

Dan Moyer