On 2003-12-02 at 13:52GMT "Peter McKenna" wrote: > In spite of programmers' fondness for non-alphabetical > characters, surely fooBarBaz is more readable than > foo_bar_baz?!
This is far from obvious. As others have pointed out, recognition of words depends to some extent on the shape, and on familiarity. If we assume (and this is perhaps questionable:-/) that programmers read more English than code, my guess would be that since the second version is closer in shape to the version separated by spaces, that's the one that should be easier to read. > Besides, fooBarBaz has two fewer characters to type! rs! S Ds ths, bt I wgr n s esy t rd. J�n -- J�n Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31 Chalmers Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (after 14:00 only, please!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
