From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-26 00:11:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Matt Gregory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ References: <2cfd1a4e.0309252032.3e3c0a1a@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:11:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.72.195.63 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1064560283 67.72.195.63 (Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:11:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:11:23 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software-eng:20795 comp.programming:63275 comp.lang.c++:245088 comp.lang.ada:42968 Date: 2003-09-26T07:11:23+00:00 List-Id: Jakob Bieling wrote: > The underscore can easily be view as a space which seperates the words, > whereas mixed-case does not provide a seperation like that, but rather a > 'large' here-comes-a-new-word-mark (ie. the captial letter). The problem I > see with this: non-captial letters can be 'large' as well. just have a look > at the 't', 'h' etc, which, imo, does not make reading a mixed-case text > easier. I think we just need a programming font that has half-sized underscores in front of all the capital letters. That would solve all these problems. I personally don't like typing underscores, but I agree they are more readable. Emacs does have a view-camel-cased-identifiers-as-underscored mode, so that's a step in the right direction.