Occasionally this comes up when deciding on a spelling for something. There are numerous examples in ECMAScript and other Web standards that seem to defy the most uniform convention:
* `JSON` vs. `Json` * `toJSON` vs. `toJson` * `XMLHttpRequest` vs. `XmlHttpRequest` * `DOMElement` vs. `DomElement` While it looks initially strange to specifically drop the capital letters on an initialisms like XML, the rule is simple in that it has an obvious machine decoding - a capital letter starts a new word. Thus, translations of identifiers to other case conventions are automatic (so long as numbers never appear at the start of a word). This helps a lot when e.g. generating bindings for IDLs to different languages, or in general interfacing different systems that really, really want to use their own naming conventions. * mixed case: `myTlaIdentifierHere` * pascal case: `MyTlaIdentifierHere` * underscore case: `my_tla_identifier_here` * uppercase: `MY_TLA_IDENTIFIER_HERE` * kebab case: `my-tla-identifier-here` * spaces case: `my tla identifier here` --- My question is whether there is an existing community recommendation anywhere for naming ECMAScript identifiers. Clearly, when Microsoft devised the name `XMLHttpRequest`, someone was having a difficult time figuring out how to spell adjacent initialisms in PascalCase. If there is no recommendation, perhaps there should be? Is there any scope for non-normative sections of information like this in the ECMAScript spec? Thanks Alex
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