I prefer Java's camelcase: searchSortedLast: it's the same length as all lower case but clearer.
On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 8:12:43 PM UTC+1, David James wrote: > > Hello, > > The title of this post is "Moving Past a Squished Case Convention" not > "Moving Pastas Quiche...". :) > > The Julia standard library tends to use the "squishedcase" notation. Being > concise is great for mathematical functions, like sin, cos, and ln. > However, it is cognitively harder for people for "compound" function names; > e.g. "searchsortedlast". Such a naming convention flies in the face of real > programming experience. It makes programming harder for people. > > There are many sane ways to name functions. Lisps tend to use hyphens, > others often use underscores. R libraries use a non-standard mix [1]. > Interestingly, the Julia parser code itself uses hyphens; e.g. > prec-assignment and prec-conditional: > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia-parser.scm > > It would be a shame for squishedcase to persist as the language reaches > 1.0. What are some possible ways to address this problem without breaking > compatibility in the short-run? > > I see a possible solution. Choose a character and encourage its use to > break apart words; e.g. -, _, or a middot (·) [2]. Make it highly > recommended but non-breaking until 1.0. Deprecate > functionsusingsquishedcase. > > Julia is great overall but lacking in this way. Let's make it better. > > Sincerely, > David > > [1] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1944910/what-is-your-preferred-style-for-naming-variables-in-r > > [2] The middot is relatively unobtrusive and doesn't take up much space > horizontally, e.g. search·sorted·last. It is also useful for variables > representing compound units; e.g. N·m. > > > >
