Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!ttds!draken!kth!sics!pd
From: pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Readable names (was Re: case sensitivity)
Message-ID: <1810@sics.se>
Date: 14 Mar 88 10:59:37 GMT
References: <2318@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2835@enea.se>
Reply-To: pd@sics.UUCP (Per Danielsson)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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In article <2835@enea.se> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>More seriously I think the use of mixed key in identifier names is a
>virtue. Why call something averylongnamewhichyoubarelycannotread when
>you can call AVeryLongNameWhichIsYetEasyToReadAtFirstGlance? OK, you
>may use underscores instead of case shifts. However, there is a drawback
>if the compiler has low limit of significant characters.

Why not call it A very long name which is yet easy to read at first
glance?
Much easier to read than your version. There are programming languages
which allow blanks in identifiers, and rightly so, since there's no
reason not to.
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