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From: shelley@btc.sps.mot.com (Norman K. Shelley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Eiffel naming discussion
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Date: 28 Nov 89 21:52:47 GMT
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Discussion regarding Dr. Meyer's naming convention and its rationale.

Page 240 of "Eiffel: The Language" states that "internal upper-case
letters ... as in putAtRight, contradicts the standard conventions of
English ... and is not part of the recommended style."

I agree BUT must note that the underscore ('_') as a word separator is
NOT English either.  A whitespace is the accepted standard but computers
have troubles with whitespace in names/labels so what do we do?  Common Lisp
uses hypens ('-') as a separator and this has more acceptance in English
than an underscore.  So if we can't use blanks because of computer
limitation and
internal upper-case because it does not match current language conventions,
then I think hyphens make MUCH more sense than underscores which themself
do NOT conform to current language conventions.

I prefer internal upper-case letters to signify where new words begin
as it is easier for my eye to determine that those are new words wherea
underscores look like word runons.  I really dislike underscores as word
separators and no separators at all i.e. all lower case are even worse.
As for Hyphens, I could probably train my eye but I'd still prefer
internal upper-case.

Further discussion is welcome.
Norman Shelley
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