X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: Fily Salas Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Using underscors or camel case for variables and functions (def) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:11:48 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 30 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302805244 70235 65.111.164.187 (14 Apr 2011 18:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:20:44 +0000 (UTC) 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: 381552 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2867 I thought you couldn't use camel words in Ruby instead you should use underscores but I just tried it and it works. Here is the code I tried. class Calculator def addIt num1,num2 _num = num1 + num2 puts _num.to_s end def subIt num1,num2 _num = num1 - num2 puts _num.to_s end end add = Calculator.new sub = Calculator.new add.addIt(5,5) sub.subIt(5,2) Is this valid in Ruby or it works but is not semantically correct? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.