On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:04 AM, 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.
Which is funny, because I had the exact opposite.
Might it be that we've had different conditioning ?
Almost certainly. I started using CamelCase in the mid-'80s and it seems very natural to me, since we still use it for (as you mention) GUI packages derived from C extension modules with that convention. On the other hand, I've also written a lot of snake_form identifiers in non-GUI Python, so that seems fairly natural to me, too.