[PEPr] Comment on RFC::RFC_PackageVariableNamingConvention

Matthew Weier O'Phinney (http://pear.php.net/user/weierophinney) has commented on the proposal for RFC::RFC_PackageVariableNamingConvention. Comment: I am concerned by the phrase "if there is no strong case for the use of lowercase_and_underscored variable naming" -- what is considered a 'strong case'? who decides whether the case is strong? I can thing of a number of scenarios where underscores would be preferable: when trying to separate acronyms (XMLHTTP vs. XML_HTTP, for instance -- and don't get me started with changing that to XmlHttp), or when porting a class from another language to PHP -- where there may be a desire to keep the variable naming the same. I agree with the idea of keeping variable naming consistent within a class, but in the end, I think such decisions are the realm of the individual developer. Since submissions need to be object oriented anyways, the public API is in the method names -- and these are already governed by the CS. Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=282 -- Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at http://pear.php.net