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."
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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
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2003-10-02 9:36 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-10-02 11:37 ` Peter Hermann
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