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RE: [xml-dev] Should one adopt the tag naming convention of an existing XML vocabulary or create one's own tag naming convention?

I Like My camelCase

Besides its camelCase not "CamelCase"

Maybe "camel-hypenCase_Under-scoreCase.is_BeTer"

But do you prefix it with "_" or "s" or "m" if its a private, static, or member variable ?

Thankfully Hungarian has lost its charm ...   I could never figure out what to do with an _pidwulshString variable when I changed it to simply char* ...

 

I remember an interview with Stroustrup where he advocated under_score_case and thought camelCase was a bastard.   Those with opinions .. will they never stop pontificating !'

 

 

I dont particularly like hyphen-case because I can't tell it apart from "hyphen" <minus> "case"

even if the compiler can.

 

 

 

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From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche@ogbuji.net]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:18 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Should one adopt the tag naming convention of an existing XML vocabulary or create one's own tag naming convention?

 

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are two possibilities:
>
> 1. I will create a my own tag naming convention, independent of the XML vocabularies that I will use.
>
> 2. I will adopt the tag naming convention of one of the XML vocabularies that I will use. (Which one?)
>
> What do you recommend?


There is only one way :) names should be all lower-case, with hyphen
as a separator.  Camel case, or any thing else really, are awful for
xml.

 

I strongly agree, but of course this one is a very subjective matter. I curse Java for its propagation of the CamelCase eyesore.

 

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