Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: identifier nomenclature Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:34:42 +0200 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87mx55x4yl.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: <21153887.1747.1337181462073.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjm4> NNTP-Posting-Host: 79.138.230.212.bredband.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1337330083 8248 79.138.230.212 (18 May 2012 08:34:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:34:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vHFKx2QG6v3NcSrB5M/rfvdsBF0= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:1592 bob writes: > What are some of the most common ways to convert a set of words to an > identifier? In Ada you mostly write A_Set_Of_Words, although CIA_Is_An_Acronym. Other languages I know have less readable conventions. And some languages even have different conventions depending on what the identifier refers to. Greetings, Jacob -- "Computer Science is to Science, as Plumbing is to Hydrodynamics"