Hi Fred,
It's standard ruby coding conventions, this style of naming is used in
ruby not camel cased as is prevalent in Java and c/c++. Take a look at the
Ruby coding conventions doc:
http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/rw-cgi.rb?cmd=view;name=RubyCodingConvention
The naming conventions lists naming conventions for classes/modules and
methods, variables, constants. Class names are constants in Ruby internally
and must begin with an upper case letter.
Try the following:
class dog
def bark
puts 'woof'
end
end
d = dog.new
d.bark
You'll get a compilation error that class/module name must be a CONSTANT -
must begin with an upper case letter. Method names therefore begin with a
lower case letter to differentiate and use underscores to separate words not
camel case. This matches variable names which in some cases - attributes
notably - are basically interchangeable.
-Charley
On 4/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess the question is for Bret
[1] What are the pros and cons of naming a method bring_to_front rather
than BringToFront.
Thanks.
Fred.
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