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RE: Aesthetically pleasing identifier names

• Posted by "Ricardo M. Forno" <rforno at uyuyuy.com> Mar 08, 2005
• 495 views

Agreed. I do so.
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brent W. Hughes <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:01 PM
Subject: Aesthetically pleasing identifier names


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> posted by: Brent W. Hughes <bwh566 at yahoo.com>
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> When I was a young and tender programmer, if I wanted to declare a
function to, say, set a menu bar to a certain value, I would probably name
the function something like "smb" which of course, stood for "set menu bar".
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> After a few years, I decided that that was not very self-documenting, so I
would name such a variable "setmenubar".  This made the code more readable
and was worth the extra typing.
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> Sometime later, I saw people using underscores in their identifier names,
and I decided to give that a try.  My function would hence be called
"set_menu_bar".
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> 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.
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> What do you think?
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> Brent
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