Empirical proof that underscores are good

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

i_have_always_preferred_this_style ToCamelOrPascalOne and now there is a study that confirms my point of view[^] :cool:

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[Lost User]

The study confirmed readability which is only one potential measure of superiority. That said, I'm sure the underline method would have also come out on top had doucheability been measured.

[loctrice]

If_You_Have_A_Name_That_Complicated_Then_You_Should_Consider_That_A_Warning_Sign_And_Change_Something

If it moves, compile it

[Ron Beyer]

Quote:

One main difference is that subjects were trained mainly in the underscore style and were all programmers. While results indicate no difference in accuracy between the two styles, subjects recognize identifiers in the underscore style more quickly.

[sarcasm] So its a non-biased study then? [/end sarcasm]

[Lost User]

loctrice wrote:

If_You_Have_A_Name_That_Complicated_Then_You_Should_Consider_That_A_Warning_Sign_And_Change_Something

Translation: IfYouHaveANameThatComplicatedThenYouShouldConsiderThatAWarningSignAndChangeSomething

[Nish Nishant]

How about camel with underscores? Example: Top_Message_List :-D

Regards, Nish

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[GrumbleDuke]

Those both look like COBOL names

[loctrice]

Isn't that title case ? :suss:

If it moves, compile it

[Nish Nishant]

loctrice wrote:

Isn't that title case ?

It's camel uppercase (or pascal / title case).

Regards, Nish

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[kmoorevs]

This gets my vote for readability! :) The only downside is keyboard efficiency, but most of us only type a variable name once...the rest is auto-complete or copy/paste, so hardly a factor.

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

[Nish Nishant]

Yeah, it's quite readable, isn't it? :-) And I agree, auto-complete means not having to type and re-type this all over the place!

Regards, Nish

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[SoMad]

:thumbsup: It's nice they put that right there in the intro. No need to read through the study then. :-\ Soren Madsen

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[Ron Beyer]

"And in other breaking news studies, the University of Obvious found that people who's native language is English can pick out English phrases in German sentences better than German phrases".

[lewax00]

It's proof that English is better! :-D

[Mycroft Holmes]

Will you sod off with your dammed logic that just killed my main argument (keyboard and intellisense) against underscores, I hate the bloody things and growl at any of the devs that employ them.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[kmoorevs]

Sorry about that! :) In the interest of keyboard efficiency, the most logical candidates would be: 0: space 1: period 2: semicolon 3: brackets[] Have fun using those! :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

[Super Lloyd]

Stop wanking and start doing real work! :zzz: Next you'll bother us about {} instead of { } I wonder if there ever was something more pointless? Maybe it's what you argue about when your work doesn't matter, I suppose?!

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[walterhevedeich]

And even better that Ron had put it here, so I would no longer need to open the link.

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[Septimus Hedgehog]

And somebody actually got paid for writing that?

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[Simon ORiordan from UK]

Surely that's { } ?