Why we don't use underbars

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

On Thursday 05 May 2011 21:24:10 Matt Mackall wrote:
> I'm perfectly aware of that, but I've made a conscious and measured
> evaluation that being able to remember that "foo bar baz" is "foobarbaz"
> and not "foo_bar_baz" without needing a reference and without getting
> runtime errors completely trumps the minor readability nuisance.[1]
… 

Thank you for your detailed answer! I’m currently rethinking my style for 
personal projects based on it. 

FOO_BAR_GOO_GAR_GAZ grows very unwieldy over time…
I used that style for constants in a personal 1-year project, and the code 
grew somewhat unreadable over time. 

Best wishes,
Arne

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