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From: johnson@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: embeddedCapitals
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Date: 18 Mar 88 14:58:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!johnson    Mar 18 08:58:00 1988


I find nothing wrong with the Xerox style for names.  I would very
much dislike long names with no separators, regardless of what the
Germans do.  It is probably better to use a separator character
(I_use_underscore_in_C) but capital letters are satisfactory.

Although this makes it easier to mispell a name, it is only a minor
drawback in Smalltalk, because the compiler catches all undefined
variables and lets the programmer fix them immediately.