On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:04 AM, Jacco van Dorp <j.van.d...@deonet.nl> wrote:
> 2018-05-01 14:54 GMT+02:00 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > > 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. > > Which is funny, because I had the exact opposite. > > Might it be that we've had different conditioning ? Almost certainly. I started using CamelCase in the mid-'80s and it seems very natural to me, since we still use it for (as you mention) GUI packages derived from C extension modules with that convention. On the other hand, I've also written a lot of snake_form identifiers in non-GUI Python, so that seems fairly natural to me, too.
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