It is not, we are just talking about conventions here. Personally I like to use 
both casing approaches  so I can see the difference between obj-c APIs and 
Ruby's.

- Matt

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On Feb 12, 2011, at 16:44, Robert Payne <robertpa...@me.com> wrote:

> Is it extremely bad practice to use Camel Case in Ruby? At least for MacRuby? 
> I have been mostly because I'm an Objective-C developer and it's what I'm 
> used to as well as all of the Apple API are Camel Case and I didn't want to 
> make the code spaghetti between the two.
> 
> -Robert
> 
> On 13/02/2011, at 1:41 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
> 
>> Ok so I will play the mean team member and tell you that we are seriously 
>> not considering supporting something like that as part of the base 
>> implementation. Now that doesn't mean that you guys can't create a gem to 
>> support that.
>> 
>> - Matt
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Feb 12, 2011, at 16:35, Rich Morin <r...@cfcl.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> At 11:01 AM +1300 2/13/11, Arthur Gunn wrote:
>>>>> Ruby is extremely flexible.  I'm quite sure that some
>>>>> metaprogramming  could be used to prototype something
>>>>> for experimentation.
>>>> 
>>>> For the sake of experimentation then, here's some ruby
>>>> code that does that: https://gist.github.com/824163
>>>> 
>>>> I don't think that implementing this in macruby would
>>>> be a terrible idea. ...
>>> 
>>> I certainly don't think it's a terrible idea to TRY.  If
>>> the results are uglier and/or more confusing than normal
>>> MacRuby, we'll have learned something and can move on.
>>> 
>>> The next step, for someone with the time and energy, is
>>> to pick a working MacRuby example and transliterate the
>>> code to use this hack.  That will allow folks to assess
>>> both the performance and the appearance of the hack.
>>> 
>>> -r
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