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.
Matt Aimonetti wrote: > 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. Indeed, it's "just" a matter of tastes and conventions. Some folks like CamelCase. I despise so much that, when forced to use upper case (eg, to name a class), I tend to use a Combination_Method, for readability. IMHO, two of the nicest things about Ruby are: * Matz's taste as a language designer * TIMTOWTDI, inherited from Perl I'm extremely OCD about how my code looks. I polish it until it's as clean and readable as I can make it. By giving me a nice starting point and not getting in my way, Ruby allows me to write code I can be proud of. If a Ruby variant (eg, MacRuby) forces my code to look like a combination of Ruby with Java, ObjC, or another high-ceremony language, that will diminish my joy (and perhaps my efficiency) in using it. At 4:41 PM -0800 2/12/11, 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. The next step, as I posted earlier, is to transliterate an example, then look over the results. So, there is only one situation where a change to MacRuby needs to be considered at all: MacRuby.hack if code.nicer? and code.slow? When and if that happens, we can talk about sanitary ways to hack variant behavior into MacRuby's code base, etc. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Software system design, development, and documentation _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
