I don't remember the exact paper I read, but e.g. on Wikipedia - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_recognition - but googling for "reading by 
shapes" etc. turns out a lot of various articles.

But I see it myself - urlHandler - I immediately see Handler, but have to read 
into it letter by letter to see the "url". When it's URLHandler, I see 
immediately both.

If you see it in urlHandler, you might be used to it - you of course can learn 
new words/word combinations.

> On May 19, 2016, at 7:31 PM, Brandon Knope via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Do you have a source for this? While I bet there is research showing that 
> acronyms on their own are easier to read in all caps, does it talk about when 
> it is joined with other words such as urlHandler?
> 
> And like I said, just because ObjC devs are used to it is probably not a good 
> enough rationale to overturn an accepted proposal. 
> 
> Brandon
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On May 19, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Krystof Vasa <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Aside from ObjC developers being used to this, psychology of reading tells 
>> us that people read by shapes of the words - they are used to seeing 
>> abbreviations in capital letters - from this point, it's better readable.
>> 
>>> On May 19, 2016, at 7:14 PM, Brandon Knope via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Do you have a particular reason? I don't think because it is a certain way 
>>> in Objective-C means it must be that same way in Swift. 
>>> 
>>> Brandon 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>>> On May 19, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Pavel Kapinos via swift-evolution 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> SE-0005 "Better Translation of Objective-C APIs Into Swift Proposal” in 
>>>> Proposed Solution # 6 "Lowercase values" suggests “to lowercase 
>>>> non-prefixed values whenever they are imported” with an example of 
>>>> URLHandler property becoming urlHandler. Being long time Cocoa developer, 
>>>> I object to this particular example and would like to suggest to keep 
>>>> capitalized any well known acronyms, like ASCII, PDF, URL etc. as they are 
>>>> now in Cocoa. Thank you!
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Pavel.
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