Steven,
>Thanks for all the interesting responses. From what I have gathered, it
>appears that there is a consensus that mixed case has better legibility
>than all upper case. However, I am still tracking down references to
I think people were expressing personal opinions, and these were
not based on published research.
The following describes a study of what might be described as
extreme alternation.
@Article{Herdman_99,
author = "Chris M. Herdman and Donna Chernecki and Dennis
Norris",
title = "Naming {cAsE} {aLtErNaTeD} words",
journal = "Memory \& Cognition",
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "254--266",
year = "1999",
online = "paper",
}
>etc. Rather, I'm interested in this topic from the point of view of
>writing coding guidelines for class names, method names or parameters
>that are typically abbreviated, such as XML (or Xml).
Then you should definitely look at
www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/sent782.pdf
This cites plenty of research. The only reliable positive factors are
derived from past experience (ie the character sequences
encountered while reading text {which most people have read in
significantly greater quantities than code}).
derek
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