[Python-ideas] Objectively Quantifying Readability

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 1 08:54:03 EDT 2018


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


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