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[Alix Pexton]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 11/18/07, Alix Pexton <_a_l_i_x_._p_e_x_t_o_n_ at _g_m_a_i_l_._c_o_m_> wrote:
>> I have notthing at all against the use of CamelCase
> 
> I thought camel case was when every word /except/ the first was
> capitalised (because it's got humps in the middle, no?). likeThis.
> Examples are "opCall" and "toString".
> 
> If the first word is also capitalised, I believe that's called
> titlecase (because that's what book titles do, more or less). Examples
> are "BufferedStream" and "DirIterator".
> 
> I'm not sure what "Stdout" is. By my reckoning, stdout is two words -
> std (short for standard) and out (short for output). So I figure,
> camelcase would be "stdOut" and titlecase would be "StdOut". I guess
> some folk must just count it as one word.

It was my understanding that CamelCase was the catch all term for all space-eliminating mechanisms that use capitals to denote the beginning of a new word, whether or not the first word is capitalised.

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