<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Erik Lindahl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik.lindahl@scilifelab.se" target="_blank">erik.lindahl@scilifelab.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On 28 Nov 2013, at 22:08, Mark Abraham <<a href="mailto:mark.j.abraham@gmail.com">mark.j.abraham@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Some new C files in (say) fileio and timing modules have underscores. The new C++ files tend to be named according to a major class that they implement, which are also not named with delimiters. Not needing to interrupt keyboard flow with shift-minus is a small advantage, but I would prefer readability over that! Different people's brains work differently, too!<br>
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</div>Wasn’t the plan to convert to camelCase?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For identifiers, sure, and that has happened for the new C++ files I've seen. It sure never occurred to me that we might want a/that convention for filenames. Unsurprisingly, we've left Teemu to his own devices for so long he's suited himself ;-)</div>
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Part of that was to make it clear what things had been translated into C++ while the move is in progress, but another small advantage over the underscores is that it is easy to add _lots_ of delimiters in long names without extending the length of the identifier, instead of coming up with nonstandard abbreviations that are hard for other developers to decipher.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, transition-marking is useful. Camel case is not perfect either, because now you have to wonder where to capitalise stuff like PPPMELoadBalancing...</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would also hate to have different standards for short vs. long identifiers, with each developer deciding when an underscore might look good to have, or when a name short enough to do without it. With gmxCamelCase we would always write gmxAssert.cpp too?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Happy to do that, but it's not a high priority.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Cheers,<br>
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Erik<br>
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