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On 01/21/2011 09:43 AM, Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
> newline and whitespace: not sure how it is called in English, but these look
> like they have become single words and are fine.

I would not make such exceptions because there is no rational criterion 
to determine which multiple-word terms have become kinds of single-word 
terms, in english, AFAIK (eg: filename, dirname, drivename, fullname, 
shortname?). Anyway, D is not an english dialect, it just reuses the 
english lexicon.
Programmers would be left in constant doubt. Thus, the only practical 
scheme is a systematic rule: more-than-one-word ==> camel-case. It's 
more annoying to type, agreed, for common 2-words-only terms; but one 
can then always guess what the correct form is --without any doubt.
Also: very newcomer friendly.

Denis
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