renamepalooza time

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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