> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:02 PM
 
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:18 PM, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'd like to convert the reflection API to the current php standard of
> > >> CamelCaps (instead of underscores) for it's class and method names.
> > >> Any objections?
> > >
> > > yes
> >
> > Care to elaborate?
> 
> Sure, i'll repeat what I said on IRC:
> 19:47 <@Derick> 1. it's not any standard
> 19:47 <@Derick> 2. it's ugly as hell
> 19:47 <@Derick> (it was 'standard' for a while but due to popluair demand
> we
>                 removed it from coding_standards)
> 19:57 <[GeorgeS]> Derick: didn't see the change to CODING_STANDARDS.
>                   But that's a good reason.
> 
> Please have a look at the archives for this, as I remember having a
> discussion about this too. IMO all internal functions use the underscore
> way, so why deviate for methods? (This is as far as I go, no need to
> discuss this again)

There was an argument raised by Marcus a while back. The main point was that
PHP's lack of preserving of case would be a major draw back to studlyCaps.
However since he solved the issue the discussion faded away (for obvious
reasons).

Regards,
Lukas

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