Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:6098 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55442 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Dec 2003 15:23:22 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55418 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2003 15:23:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO milton.schell.de) (217.160.72.35) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 15:23:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 24599 invoked by uid 501); 3 Dec 2003 15:23:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fragrance) (217.160.72.104) by kdserv.de with SMTP; 3 Dec 2003 15:23:21 -0000 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:23:20 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: sas@fragrance To: Lukas Smith cc: 'Pierre-Alain Joye' , hartmut@php-groupies.de, ulf.wendel@phpdoc.de, internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php-src / CODING_STANDARDS From: sascha@schumann.cx (Sascha Schumann) > Do you think this inconsistency is worth it, even if it turns out that most > of our bindings turn out to choose studyCaps? Certainly. And I am pretty sure that many binding authors will understand why uglyCaps are largely inferior in the area of comprehension. > No doubt the non studlyCaps version is easier to read (btw in the studlyCaps > version the first char should be lowercased). However is this a real > scenario? How many words will there be in a method name? I have seen Windows identifiers which are nearly that length. I don't mind elaborated identifiers, but whatever their length is, they need to be readable. - Sascha