Re: Casing of acronyms in class and method names

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 1:44 PM Tim Düsterhus <tim@bastelstu.be> wrote: > Hi > > after suggesting the use of ucfirst(strtolower(...)) casing for acronyms > within a classname of a draft RFC, I was made aware of previous class > naming RFC (June 2017) that required the use of PascalCase for class > names, with the exception of acronyms which must be completely uppercased: > > [...] > 2. It decreases readability. > > Especially if multiple acronyms follow each other. One example is the > PCGOneseq128XSLRR64 mentioned above: It's not clear that XSL > (XorShiftLow) and RR (RandomlyRotate) are two different acronyms. > > Likewise PDOODBC is much harder to parse than PdoOdbc. > > Another example might be JavaScript's XMLHttpRequest which incidentally > mixes both variants. According to the class naming RFC it would need to > be called XMLHTTPRequest, resulting in 8 consecutive uppercase characters.. > Thanks for bringing this up as readability is indeed an issue for me with all caps acronyms. I would much prefer Acronyms to be treated as words as this is how most people seem to use them anyway.