Does anyone else hate the way method names with leading underscores look? I understand that it's used to differentiate between public methods, those that makeup the interface, and private methods, those that are internal and never meant to be invoked by users of your code, but there have to be better alternatives. The underscore is especially bad if you use CamelCase:

sub _somePrivateMethod {
    my $self = shift;

    $self->_someOtherPrivateMethod;
    ...
}

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What about dropping the underscores and instead putting all private methods together after the public methods, with a comment block indicating that the following methods are private?

What do you guys think of this? What do you like to use to distinguish between the public and private parts of your modules?

In reply to I hate the leading underscores. by Anonymous Monk

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