[Tutor] Re: Philosphy on method naming in modules?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Sep 5 12:44:13 EDT 2003


> is okay, but camelCase bugs the snot out of me -- it's the inverse
of
> normal sentence capitalization and has no parallel in normal
language
> usage.  I suspect this is a religious issue, though (no amount of

Really just history. Its the convention used in
Smalltalk - Class names begin with uppercase, method
names begin lowercase.

It caught on in OO circles and spread from there.

Alan g.




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