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Re: Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def)

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Fily Salas wrote in post #992819:
> I thought you couldn't use camel words in Ruby instead you should use
> underscores but I just tried it and it works.
>

In fact, camel case is recommended for names of constants:

class MyClass  #camel case for constants
end

def my_method  #snake case
end

my_var = 1     #snake case

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Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def) Fily Salas <fs_tigre@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-14 13:11 -0500
  Re: Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def) Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-14 13:31 -0500
  Re: Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def) Fily Salas <fs_tigre@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-14 14:17 -0500
  Re: Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def) 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-14 14:33 -0500
  Re: Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def) Fily Salas <fs_tigre@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-14 19:30 -0500

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