Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:47:00 -0600 (CST) | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | RE: [OT?] Coding Style |
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"Jonathan Earle" <jearle@nortelnetworks.com>: > I prefer descriptive variable and function names - like comments, they help > to make code so much easier to read. > > One thing I wonder though... why do people prefer 'some_function_name()' > over 'SomeFunctionName()'? I personally don't like the underscore character > - it's an odd character to type when you're trying to get the name typed in, > and the shifted character, I find, is easier to input.
Code is written by the few. Code is read by the many, and having _ in there makes it MUCH easier to read. Visual comparison of "SomeFunctionName" and "some_function_name" is faster even for a coder where there may be a typo (try dropping a character) or mis identifing two different symbols with similar names:
d_hash_mask d_hash_shift
This is relatively easy to read. conversely:
DHashMask DHashShift
Are more difficult to spot.
In this case "The good of the many outweigh the good of the few".
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