CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown (2011)

Post by nequo » Tue, May 21, 2024, 2:00 PM UTC

ssousa666 wrote: post #68

my favorite thing about camelCase is that class instances are (typically) named and cased as the inverse of their pascal-cased class. val somethingRepository = SomethingRepository() Is much more visually satisfying and balanced to me than: something_repository = SomethingRepository()

Post by ivan_gammel » Tue, May 21, 2024, 4:00 PM UTC

navane wrote: post #76

ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using something else than a dot is better, same as using a slightly different syntax: search result := users @ find all by name (name) if search result @ is present() { return ok(search result @ get()) } else { return not found() }

I still think the space adds more readability than the dot dectracts. If you don't like the dot though, I would use a comma. We have been writing for a couple centuries now, and the comma is well known and used. search result := users, find all by name (name) if search result, is present() { return ok(search result, get()) } else { return not found() }

   // comma is optional, used for disambiguation
   search result := users, find all by name. // omitted parameters match words

   if search result is present,  // empty brackets can be omitted
      return ok(search result value); // API change for better readability 
   else
      return: not found. // colon is another optional delimiter 
 

Post by IshKebab » Tue, May 21, 2024, 4:45 PM UTC

keybored wrote: post #80

IshKebab wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah no thanks. Soo `a-b` and `a - b` are both potentially valid and different? Also allowing hyphens generally leads to issues when interoperating with other languages that don't support hyphens. Probably the best example of this is CSS which does allow hyphens, and Javascript which doesn't. `background-color` in CSS gets translated to `backgroundColor` in JS. It's an annoying paper cut that trips up beginners and m…

> Yeah no thanks. Soo `a-b` and `a - b` are both potentially valid and different? Like what the sibling comment said: `-b` should be illegal. And I don’t think this would be a big deal in practice for experienced users (used to these rules). For beginners you could build in an error check: give a dedicated error message if you write `a-b` but you happen to have both variables `a` and `b`. Then the compiler can tell t…

Post by dang » Tue, May 21, 2024, 5:47 PM UTC

Post by dvsk » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:29 PM UTC

thenbe wrote: post #52

derbOac wrote: post #30

I use both but camel case assumes capitalization doesn't have meaning other than as a sort of break indicator, which isn't always the case.

Behold this monstrosity: devDbUrl Madness. The only thing worse that developers willingly tolerate is prettier's sacrilegious linebreaks [0]. 0: https://prettier.io/playground/#N4Igxg9gdgLgprEAuc0DOMAEBXNc...