Posted by Tony Marston on 09/26/44 11:36

"Wayne" <not@here.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:48:06 -0000, "Tony Marston"
> <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>By mixing case I mean mixing case in the same word. Some organisations
>>like
>>all upper case, some like all lower case, but NOBODY likes a mixture of
>>case
>>in the same word. That is the difference.
>
> Ummm.. camelCase is used ALOT. In fact, camelCase is now becoming
> the standard for PHP.

Only because a few core developers are enforcing it. Nobody asked the
millions of users.

> avariablelikethisisveryhardtounderstand.
> itsMuchEasierToSayThingsWithSomeCapitals.

That's why some people still prefer to use the undersore as a word
separator, to produce something like
an_underscore_is_far_better_than_those_stupid_camelcaps. This is the
preferrd method in ANSI SQL for example, and has been since day 1.

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