[ale] One for systemd haters

Todor Fassl fassl.tod at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 09:53:19 EDT 2018


If it is of any interest, screen readers (as used by the blind) do way, 
way better with camelCase than with snake_case.

A blind person listening to your code would probably very much prefer 
camelCase.


On 10/12/18 9:43 AM, Charles Shapiro via Ale wrote:
> Me too.  The more interesting question:  snake_case or CamelCase for 
> naming in source code?  I'm Old School and learned snake_case deep in my 
> fingees, but all the CoolKids these days seem to have migrated to 
> CamelCase, so I'm trying to do this also.  Alas, sometimes the result of 
> this is a mix of both, which I am positive is the pessimal outcome.
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:29 AM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org 
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 14:38:10 +0000
>     "Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale" <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>      > What mentally deficient cretin in the Systemd development world
>      > decided naming a file with a "-" as first character was a good idea?
> 
>     Just speaking for myself, files I create contain a-z,A-Z,0-9, dots,
>     and underscores. Nothing else.
> 
>     First thing I do when somebody sends me a file with spaces is replace
>     them with underscores. Have you ever seen these people who send you
>     files with singlequotes in the name?
> 
>     SteveT
> 
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