On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Daniel Ruoso <dan...@ruoso.com> wrote: > Em Sáb, 2010-04-10 às 19:53 -0400, John Siracusa escreveu: >> I'm having trouble imaging any convention that involves mixing word >> separators being successful. > > But the convention Damian is proposing is simply "use underscores". > > Basically camelCase and with_underscores are conventions on "how to > circunvent the fact that we can't use spaces in our identifiers". What > is proposed here is that the p5 convention should be preserved. > > The hyphen is *not* a space, so it doesn't even get into the discussion > of this convention. The basic difference is that when a programmer with > sufficient communication skills have a composed word (i.e.: week-day), > he will have the ability to use the hyphen instead of either supress it > or use an underscore...
These nuances are exactly what will be lost on people who see classes that use both underscores and hyphens in their method names. -John
