renamepalooza time

[Max Samukha]

On 01/22/2011 02:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/21/11 4:49 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Friday, January 21, 2011 13:30:11 Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> > iswhite
>>>
>>> I like separating is with an underscore, like most coding styles do:
>>>
>>> is_whitespace
>>>
>>> Warm and fuzzy... :)
>>
>> Most? I've never dealt with a coding style that had underscores. It's
>> generally
>> camelcase, though I get the impression that using underscores in C
>> code is more
>> common (I've mostly used C++ and Java). Regardless however, Phobos'
>> coding style
>> uses camelcase, not underscores. And this whole thread was started to
>> try and
>> find better names for functions which need new names, because they don't
>> currently follow Phobos' naming conventions.
>
> Ever since I worked with STL, I fell in love with
> names_with_underscores. I can't explain it, but my feeling is that code
> using that convention is calm and levelheaded. Camel case forces me to
> think of one-word names because at the second word some beauty is
> already lost; never felt the same with the underscores. If I could go
> back in time I'd propose that convention throughout.
>
> Andrei
>

My problem with underscore-delimited identifiers is that they can get 
really hard on eyes:

int my_temp_var = some_object_instance.some_field.some_other_field;

The dots are completely lost. Also, when identifiers are getting long 
(and in large libraries they tend to) the underscores become to look 
pretty annoying. I have worked with many conventions and camelCase 
remains my favorite for now.