[x]: Only the initial letter should be capital
I like the "Mina" prefix, not "MINA".
Cameron
On 9/17/07, Maarten Bosteels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [x]: Only the initial letter should be capital
>
> I agree.
>
> On 9/17/07, Richard Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > [X]: Only the initial letter should be capital
> >
> > I like Davids reasoning and have some of my own as well. The only time
> > anyone actually says "input/output" is when they are answering the
> > question, "What is IO?". Similarly, the only time anyone actually says
> > "Secure Socket Layer" is when answering the question, "What is SSL?" By
> > that token the acronyms have virtually become nouns in and of themselves.
> >
> > Aesthetically, I also just prefer to see HttpProtocolFilter,
> > SmtpProtocolFitler, DnsProtocolFilter rather than HTTPProcotolFitler,
> > SMTPProtocolFilter, and DNSProtocolFilter. (There are three more
> > acronyms that people never use the full names for except when explaining
> > them.)
> >
> > But I think Davids reasoning is great because it is a practical,
> > pragmatic reason to use camel case for the common acronyms (I know I've
> > been bitten by this when using dependency injection).
> >
> > Just this mans opinion.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > David M. Lloyd wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:57:11 +0900
> > > "Trustin Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Hi folks,
> > >>
> > >> As many people pointed out, MINA currently has somewhat inconsistent
> > >> naming style for acronyms (e.g IO vs Io and MDC vs Mdc). I'm not sure
> > >> standardizing the naming style for acronyms are definitely required,
> > >> but I'd like to know what you think about it.
> > >>
> > >> Personally I'd prefer all capital acronym because it's what acronym
> > >> is, and IOException is already a good example. :)
> > >>
> > >
> > > Think about this though. Say I've got a class called IPAddress.
> > > Consider this:
> > >
> > > public class Foo {
> > > private IPAddress ipAddress;
> > >
> > > public void setIPAddress(IPAddress ipAddress) { this.ipAddress =
> > ipAddress; }
> > >
> > > public IPAddress getIPAddress(IPAddress ipAddress) { return
> > ipAddress; }
> > >
> > > // other stuff...
> > > }
> > >
> > > Many frameworks will expect that, given a property name of "ipAddress",
> > there
> > > will be a getter/setter of "getIpAddress/setIpAddress". To use the
> > "proper"
> > > names, you'd need a property of name "iPAdress", which looks
> > ridiculous. So
> > > I say, treat acronyms like words.
> > >
> > > So:
> > >
> > > [ ]: All capital
> > > [X]: Only the initial letter should be capital
> > >
> > > - DML
> > >
> >
> >
>
