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On 01/21/2011 09:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Well, entab, I'd argue_does_  follow the naming convention, because entab would
> be a verb, albeit a made up one. Certainly, en is a prefix, not another word, so
> I think that entab is fine. If that doesn't fly, then go with enTab, I guess, but
> I'd argue that entab is a single word and fine as it is.

I fully agree with you on the linguistic side: "entab" is a single-word 
term, just like eg "input" (no-one would suggest "inPut" ;-). But 
practically, the decomposition "enTab" helps understanding this 
identifier by nicely highlighting "tab", don't you think?
This is even more relevant for foreigners, who have here to guess: (1) 
that "entab" is not a 'normal' english single-word term they would just 
not know (2) as you say, that en- is a verb-forming prefix in english 
one can more or less freely use. Non-trivial.

Denis
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