On 01/21/2011 09:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Well, entab, I'd argue_does_ follow the naming convention, because entab would be a verb, albeit a made up one. Certainly, en is a prefix, not another word, so I think that entab is fine. If that doesn't fly, then go with enTab, I guess, but I'd argue that entab is a single word and fine as it is.
I fully agree with you on the linguistic side: "entab" is a single-word term, just like eg "input" (no-one would suggest "inPut" ;-). But practically, the decomposition "enTab" helps understanding this identifier by nicely highlighting "tab", don't you think? This is even more relevant for foreigners, who have here to guess: (1) that "entab" is not a 'normal' english single-word term they would just not know (2) as you say, that en- is a verb-forming prefix in english one can more or less freely use. Non-trivial.
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