Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: 7stud -- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:33:29 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1e684a353314d784a0803ca89187a0bd@ruby-forum.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302809688 78433 65.111.164.187 (14 Apr 2011 19:34:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:34:48 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381561 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <1e684a353314d784a0803ca89187a0bd@ruby-forum.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2874 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 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.