[ale] One for systemd haters

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 10:08:23 EDT 2018


That makes for a very good argument to use camelCase.
Thanks for the perspective.
On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 08:53 -0500, Todor Fassl via Ale wrote:
> 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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