I'm afraid that, for now at least, I will continue to use

MuchEasierToTypeLongNames rather than

a_pain_in_the_arse_to_type_long_names.

Maybe I have simply been using the former so long that I don't have any difficulty to parsing them, though I think the exaggerated length is a part of the problem.

isaThing(); as opposed to

is_a_thing(); or 

$dataFile = './data'; 
$logFile = './log';

[download]
versus 
$data_file = './data'; 
$log_file = './log';

[download]
or even

$AoA = [[],[],[]]; versus

$a_o_a = [[],[],[]];

all seem perfectly acceptable choices to my eyes, but more importantly, my fingers. Interupting the flow of typing the name in order to hit shift-- is just to darn awkward I find.

Maybe once we get full ucs support in Perl, we'll be able to rewire our editors so that the space bar produces the utf equivalent of   (I tried to google it, but its not an easy thing to search for :), then we could have variable names like

$much easier to read long variable++;

Though I guess during the transition, this could be fraught with problems.

Nah! Your thinking of Simon Templar, originally played by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy

In reply to Re: Re^2: the "@" indicates plural hence "s" is redundant by BrowserUk
in thread the "@" indicates plural hence "s" is redundant by princepawn

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