Re: sudlyCaps

Related articles: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=105299997308470&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=104837776401767&w=2 Moriyoshi marcus.boerger@t-online.de (Marcus Börger) wrote: > Hello internals, > > referring to paragraph 6 of our CODING_STYLES i changed my own spl extension > and parts of SQLite which interact with spl. > > [6] Method names follow the 'studlyCaps' (also referred to as 'bumpy case' > or 'camel caps') naming convention, with care taken to minimize the > letter count. The initial letter of the name is lowercase, and each > letter that starts a new 'word' is capitalized. > > Good: > 'connect()' > 'getData()' > 'buildSomeWidget()' > > Bad: > 'get_Data()' > 'buildsomewidget' > 'getI()' > > This change immediatly caused stormy discussion on IRC. > Here is what i think: > * nobodycanreadysudlycapsmethods <- can you read that? That is what our > error messages and the reflection output will contain instead of the > intended nobodyCanReadySudlyCapsMethods what isn't much better. > Anyway PHP isn't simply capable of handling sudlyCaps since we need to > input method names in lowercase. > > * When moving extensions from PHP4 to PHP5 we would sooner or later add > newer features to their classes just like i did with SQLite. This does > result in a mixture of the old and new naming conversion which is > annoying. > > As the only consequence i think we should remove that part 6 from our CS. > > regards > marcus > > -- > Best regards, > Marcus mailto:helly@php.net > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >