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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] StudlyCaps
From: cm@leetspeak.org (Michael Walter)

George Schlossnagle wrote:
> My vote is on StudlyCaps for class method and attribute names.  This is 
> the standard in many OO languages (SmallTalk, C#, Java - as a 
> parenthetical I don't think that SmallTalks adoption of StudlyCaps (one 
> of the first I'm aware of) had anything to do with _ rendering), and 
> while we do not need to mimic other languages, adopting common 
> conventions is a good thing.
On the other hand, there are Common Lisp (foo-bar-baz), Python (mostly 
foobarbaz) and Ruby (mostly foo_bar_baz).