As far as English grammar goes, they should be capitalized if they are the
first word in a sentence.  If you are using the function name as the first
word though, you probably could come up with a better way to write it.

bad: Foo() does bar;
good: The function foo() does bar.

Daniel


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From: "Lars Torben Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] Function References not showing up in docs for mixed
case function names

> > And that even at the start of a sentence. You also don't write numbers
in
> > uppercase just because they happen to be the first 'word' of a sentence.
>
> Bad example: sentences shouldn't start with digits anyway. Spell the
> word out at the start of a sentence. It remains largely undecided as
> to whether function names should be capitalized when starting a
> sentence--I personally believe they should not be, but not everybody
> thinks that way. :)


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