Re: Implementation of boolean types.

From: Misha Dorman <misha_at_no_mishapen_spam.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:54:45 +0100
Message-ID: <11e06772igoo012@corp.supernews.com>

dawn wrote:
> -CELKO- wrote:

>> ... camelCase is worse and you can measure it
>>with eye movement studies.

> You laid out the case for using the underscore. It is a good one, but
> not sufficient. Others standards have also been thought out. I don't
> know if UML standards indicate naming conventions, but the diagrams I
> have seen use the more OOP naming standards.

Unfortunately, most naming convention standards writers (whether international, industry or local) simply do not consider issues such as readability, ease-of-scanning, or similar issues such as ease of typing.

Considering how much time we spend reading and (to a lesser extent) writing code, this seems rather short-sighted (sorry :-) Received on Thu Jul 21 2005 - 16:54:45 CDT