You may be able to look up the information elsewhere -- we have the whole internet at our disposal -- but that doesn't mean information isn't lost.
A style convention for capitalization within a language is naturally a form of lossy compression intended to aid the human mind in getting to the correct answer accurately. Not all forms of lossy compression are as lossy as others, and different forms choose to preserve different types of data. .NET's style is lossier than I prefer, as a rule of thumb, but no style convention is perfect. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Josh Leverette <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Better even than the "toggle mode caps" style of gc/gcMut? (assuming >> "mut" is an abbreviation here, if it's an acronym, then it would be >> gc/gcMUT) >> >> But of course, looks are purely subjective. The key is objective >> comparison. Pure .NET style loses information about whether something is an >> acronym or an abbreviation, and that information can be useful. >> >> > Josh, > > I would argue that the information is NOT lost... GcMut still means > "something somewhere", and the information of which is merely "moved over" > to another, better place, in the form of "documentation" like > http://seld.be/rustdoc/master/index.html...which can be easily searched > and parsed itself...and linked to other data and the greater Semantic Web, > tag and vocabulary systems, etc. > > -- > -Thad > Thad on Freebase.com <http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry> > Thad on LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/> > -- Sincerely, Josh
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