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

[Erik Price]

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 06:44  AM, Alan Gauld wrote:

>> 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.

Seems to have caught on in Java too, because it's the recommended 
coding conventions according to Sun:

<http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/>

Python has its own coding conventions, brought to you by the B.D.F.L. 
himself:

<http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.html>

The most important convention (according to "The Elements of Java 
Style" and "Python Style Guide", which I find applicable most anywhere) 
is to remain consistent in whichever style you choose.


Erik