Foreign language are full of surprise! And some don't even have letters, too. CamelCasing Chinese, anyone?
Le samedi 21 novembre 2020 à 04:06:02 UTC+1, Ed Heil a écrit : > Now that you mention the issues that come up with French, I guess it > brings up the fact that many languages (many scripts) don't have a case > distinction! So there are definite limits to the internationality of > CamelCase. > > On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 12:01:53 PM UTC-5 jn.pierr...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> CamelCase is fine, but when you have an acronym in your title, the >> question of how to do starts. >> >> for instance: HistoryOfHTMLBrowser or HistoryOfHtmlBrowser ? The first >> one is more consistant but so many uppercase in a row does not seem very >> Camel-like to me. And the second is nice but has no justification but ease >> of reading (but that's a very good reason indeed). >> >> You have also some problem with apostrophes, although English has few of >> them, French has many. For instance "l'heure et l'habitude" would be >> LHeureEtLHabitude and that's ugly. You could resolve it by a title like >> HeureEtHabitude but this example really show that, as has been told, >> CamelCase is not fit for every purpose, and you have to have an extensive >> naming convention to avoid misspelling. >> >> Also, orthographic corrector are showing a lot of ill-advised red because >> of every camelcase word and you will have a harsh time spotting the true >> errors or would have to clutter your dictionary with all your camels... >> >> >> Le vendredi 20 novembre 2020 à 16:47:20 UTC+1, Ed Heil a écrit : >> >>> Hey, thanks, all, this is exactly the kind of discussion I was hoping to >>> hear! It's been very informative, and I've really enjoyed looking at, >>> e.g., Soren's Zettelkasten! >>> >>> >>> On Friday, November 20, 2020 at 5:47:11 AM UTC-5 TiddlyTweeter wrote: >>> >>>> Ciao Soren >>>> >>>> On Thursday, 19 November 2020 at 20:53:05 UTC+1 soren.b...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I use WikiWords in my Zettelkasten >>>>> <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com>. Besides saving a couple of >>>>> keystrokes, I actually like them aesthetically ... >>>> >>>> And I think the restrictions in form >>>>> <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com/#GenerativeRestrictions> >>>>> help me come up with concise names for things. >>>> >>>> >>>> Right. I agree. Constraints can be highly productive of good use--when >>>> they match well the users cognitive process. >>>> CamelCase is particularly interesting in that *its Semantics & Form >>>> co-incide*. There is no need to add additional [[bracket]] >>>> construction forms that envelope. >>>> In that sense CamelCase is: efficient, meaningful, pretty obvious, >>>> readable & MarkupMinimal. >>>> >>>> Of course, usage hangs out on more than that. Often CamelCase is not >>>> appropriate, requires too much forethought, won't work for titles etc. >>>> >>>> But it still has real uses & excellent efficiency in some many use >>>> cases. >>>> >>>> Best wishes >>>> TT >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a57d42ed-1b8c-43e6-8065-01cd0891c4d7n%40googlegroups.com.
