Re: a question of form

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Jeffrey Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 08/26/2014 12:04 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>
>> lower case variables is best with _,
>>
>>          like_this
>>
>> I find using Upper_First_Letter not good for reading:
>>
>>           Like_This
>
> I (and most others, it seems) find Initial_Caps easier to read for all 
> identifiers.

I've always used title capitalization for identifiers. That is, capitalize 
them like a title (which is almost, but not quite the same as Initial_Caps). 
Thus, Good_and_Bad rather than Good_And_Bad. This gets me into trouble with 
the RM, because that requires capitalizing words that one *never* 
capitalizes in English. Personally, I think most people use all Initial_Caps 
because it does not require thinking (and thus it can be enforced with a 
simple tool -- although title case isn't hard to enforce with a tool, one 
just needs a list of the words that aren't capitalized [the Janus/Ada pretty 
printer supports title case identifiers that way]).

                                                                  Randy.