Underscores in method names

David Harris dpharris at telus.net
Thu Oct 17 17:52:37 UTC 2002


Hi-
Just a thought -- could you translate the names_with_underscores to
namesWithUnderscores?
IE - chuck the underscore, and capitalize the first letter of the word?
David

Nevin Pratt wrote:

> Tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> >I strongly support the board position on this. Underscores in method
> >names and variable names are an abomination against the Ghods. We are
> >the Knights of the Square Bracket and we
> >Do_Not_Use_Underscores_In_Method_Names. Aside from any other
> >considerations, why would we want to make our code even faintly look
> >like j-j-j-whotsit?
> >
> >Sir tim the underscore slayer
> >
> >
> >
>
> OK.  I also agree it is aesthetically displeasing.
>
> Some months ago, I did a quick-and-dirty GLORP version 0.2.5 port.  Now
> I'm wanting to update it to the current 0.2.12, and this time I want it
> to be a bit better than "quick-and-dirty", so that it can more easily
> track the evolution of GLORP as it occurs.
>
> However, GLORP uses a bunch of underscores in the method names, which
> makes it a bit more difficult to come up with a quality approach that
> will allow the Squeak port to easily track the GLORP evolution.
>
> Maybe I'll have to think about it some more.
>
> Nevin

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