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From: goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: embeddedCapitals
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Date: 18 Mar 88 04:37:00 GMT
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 Colin Kendall notes that the Smalltalk embedded-capital "standard" is not
super-helpful.  It has an even worse drawback.  Suppose you can't remember
whether a variable was "Smalltalk" or "SmallTalk".  This leads you to ask
whether it was one word or not.  But there is often no answer that is clearly
correct.  In superDeluxeSubsystem, it is hard to say whether the next-to-last
"s" starts a new word.  So the result is that incorrectly spelled variables
occur, whereas without the embedded capital standard, there would not be this
problem.