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Subject: Re: Pascal case of the field "BidiElementName"
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:24:37 -0500
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On 2/28/2017 9:08 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>   Why are most of the field names of the type
>
> javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument
>
>   written in Pascal case?
>
>   »BidiElementName«, »ContentElementName« ,
>   »ElementNameAttribute«, ...

Per standard naming convention they should have been all uppercase with 
underscore.

But why is a difficult question.

Maybe ask Timothy Prinzing.

Arne