On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Jacco van Dorp <j.van.dorp@deonet.nl> wrote:
2018-05-01 14:54 GMT+02:00 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>:
Rhodri James wrote:
I'd be interested to know if there is a readability difference between really_long_descriptive_identifier_name and ReallyLongDescriptiveIdentifierNames.
As one data point on that, jerking my eyes quickly across that line I found it much easier to pick out the component words in the one with underscores.
-- Greg
Which is funny, because I had the exact opposite.
Might it be that we've had different conditioning ?
Jacco
The one with underscores reads fairly better though. Might it be that it does read better? Ok, that's not scientific enough. But the scores 2:1 so far ;-) to be pedantic - ReallyLongDescriptiveIdentifierNames has also an issue with "I" which might confuse because it looks same as little L. Just to illustrate that choice of comparison samples is very sensitive thing. In such a way an experienced guy can even scam the experimental subjects by making samples which will show what he wants in result. Mikhail