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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>
Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:40:53 +0200
Date: 2003-10-20T06:25:39+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F939185.7050809@crs4.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <266426e1.0309280217.15508f70@posting.google.com>

James Dow Allen wrote:

> CamelMode, camel_mode, etc. are all quite *readable*;

It may be a matter of personal taste (haven't seen any actual studies),
but I prefer underscores between words, when I am no allowed to put
spaces there.  In Ada I follow the style guide and use both underscores
and capitalisation.

 > when using long
> names the important thing is to make them *writable*,

Try to count how often you _read_ and _write_ an identifier.  I think
you might be surprised by the difference.  Easy writing of the
identifers is not anywhere nearly as important as easy reading.

> Consistency is therefore the important thing.

It is.

 > If you abbreviate words,
> abbreviate them as the first 4 (or whatever) letters, consistently.

I prefer the suggestion from the Ada style guide (IIRC) that you don't
abbreviate words, and that you only use acronyms from a limited
project-specific list.

> (I usually rewind a file with "lseek(fd, 0L, 0)" because I can't
> remember if 0 is SEEKSET or SEEK_SET.)

Very annoying with a standard library with an inconsistent naming of
identifiers.

One more point on the topic of consistent naming of identifiers.  I find
the style with using different naming conventions for functions,
constants, variables, etc. very annoying.  I _don't_ want to have to
worry if something is a function, constant or variable.  Specially not
if it actually is an implementation dependent detail.  So _please_ use
the same naming convention for all identifiers.

Jacob
-- 
"Any, sufficiently complicated, experiment is indistinguishable from
  magic."




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-20  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-26  4:32 ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ Andy Glew
2003-09-26  5:43 ` Attila Feher
2003-09-26  5:54 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-09-26  7:11   ` Matt Gregory
2003-09-26 17:12     ` Matt Gregory
2003-09-26 18:25       ` tmoran
2003-09-26 18:41       ` Michael Feathers
2003-09-26 13:43   ` Steve
2003-09-26  7:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-09-26 15:40   ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-09-27 11:18     ` Mad Hamish
2003-09-28  9:26       ` Martin Dowie
2003-09-29 17:34     ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-09-29 23:19       ` Mike Bandor
2003-10-03 11:53         ` Spell-checking source code (Was: ISO Studies of underscores...) Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-03 14:13           ` William
2003-10-03 14:20             ` William
2003-10-03 18:39               ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-03 22:04                 ` Kevin Morenski
2003-10-04  9:49                   ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-05 15:16                     ` William
2003-10-06 12:58                   ` Robert Stankowic
2003-10-03 19:48               ` Jim Rogers
2003-10-05 15:08                 ` William
2003-10-04  3:07           ` Steve
2003-10-04  9:44             ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-04 10:41               ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-04 18:29                 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-04 19:06                   ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-07 18:56                     ` Spell-checking source code Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-12  8:07                       ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-14 13:41                         ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-14 15:30                           ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-14 15:50                             ` Peter Bushell
2003-10-14 16:46                               ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-14 17:34                                 ` Alan Balmer
2003-10-15  5:34                                   ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-15 15:02                                     ` Alan Balmer
2003-10-16  8:57                                     ` Frank Schmitt
2003-10-20  7:42                                 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
     [not found]                             ` <h51pov4t28ujj3bqlareldhsiie0m4ljre@4ax.com>
2003-10-15  5:43                               ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-20  7:44                             ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-24 11:55                               ` Stephen Baynes.
2003-10-07 18:47           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-10 11:52       ` ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ Stephen Baynes.
2003-10-13  9:32         ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-09-26 16:22 ` Randy King
2003-09-26 16:51   ` Hyman Rosen
2003-09-26 18:02     ` Mike Smith
2003-09-26 19:05       ` Hyman Rosen
2003-09-26 19:56       ` Default User
2003-09-26 17:24 ` Jack Klein
2003-09-26 17:44   ` Programmer Dude
2003-09-27 11:44     ` Gerry Quinn
2003-09-26 19:57   ` Default User
2003-09-27 16:35   ` Richard Heathfield
2003-09-28  0:23     ` Ian Woods
2003-09-28 10:17   ` James Dow Allen
2003-10-04  8:45     ` Matt Gregory
2003-10-04 18:41     ` Default User
2003-10-04 22:13       ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-10-20  7:40     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2003-10-21  1:08       ` Wes Groleau
2003-10-02  4:20 ` Peter Ammon
2003-10-02 14:35   ` Programmer Dude
2003-10-03 22:42     ` Peter Ammon
2003-10-04  0:10       ` Wes Groleau
2003-10-04  1:03         ` Peter Ammon
2003-10-04  8:48       ` Matt Gregory
2003-10-04 10:19         ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-04 12:13           ` Corey Murtagh
2003-10-04 13:29           ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-10-04 22:15             ` John W. Krahn
2003-10-04 12:28         ` CBFalconer
2003-10-06  6:02       ` Dave Thompson
2003-10-08 16:22       ` Programmer Dude
2003-10-28  1:16       ` Gene Wirchenko
2003-10-28  3:01         ` Oplec
2003-10-28  3:29         ` Dave Vandervies
2003-10-08 15:07 ` Isaac Gouy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-02  9:36 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-10-02 11:37 ` Peter Hermann
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