Re: relaxing studlyCaps requirement?
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:41:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: relaxing studlyCaps requirement? | ||
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Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>
> Quoting "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@alltheweb.com>:
>
> > I think we should consider relaxing the studlyCaps requirement and
> > change it from a requirement to a recommendation. These things seem to
> > invoke a lot of hard-felt feelings in people, and I don't see any reason
> > to be too stubborn about this at the expense of some very good contributions.
> >
> > This does _not_ mean we're going to start relaxing every other
> > requirement, it's just that this one issue has caused a lot of funny faces.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> Short answer: no, don't.
>
> Long answer: Argh. Here we go again...
>
I don't have a radical opinion like Chuck, but IMO at least "public"
methods should follow the convention. Every of us knows the advantages
of having a strinct convention in terms of speed of coding (don't need
to remember what convention followed the autor) and code readability
(all the code looks similar).
Tomas V.V.Cox