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more than you ever cared to know about casing
In the last couple months, I've run across the following four casing styles--and had them pointed out to me as such. I've certainly seen and used them all before, but it never occurred to me to notice them in particular or to realize that there were names for them. For example:
  • Sentence case looks like this

  • Title Case Looks Like This

  • camelCaseLooksLikeThis

  • MixedCaseLooksLikeThis
Of course, these are just the names I learned for them. There are dozens of other names for them, and there are still other kinds of casing, like rANdOm caSINg, ALL CAPS, i dont use caps, SMALL CAPS, STuck key, and so on.

It's minutes of endless entertainment. Wikipedia has articles on it, with official academic-sounding names, like "bicapitalization" and such.

So next time you crane your pinky towards that shift key...consider carefully.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Sister Mary - Morris Robinson

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kerravonsen From: [info]kerravonsen Date: August 22nd, 2007 12:36 am (UTC) (Link)
I was under the impression that CamelCaseLooksLikeThis -- at least, that's how I've found it defined in the only places I've found that use the term: in wikis.
reveilles From: [info]reveilles Date: August 22nd, 2007 01:46 am (UTC) (Link)
Yes, you're probably right. Maybe my example is called "lower camel case" and your example is called "upper camel case".

Oh, the hairs we can split! :)
dasubergeek From: [info]dasubergeek Date: August 22nd, 2007 04:10 am (UTC) (Link)
We've always identified writingThatLooksLikeThis as "camel capping" and WritingThatLooksLikeThis as "Title Case With Broken Spacebar".

The former is our coding standard: strHaHaMyVariableNameIsLongerThanYours, arrNoItIsNotYouBloodyStupidAmericanMonkeysScotsGetNowPissOffEh, intSomeNumberX, lngSomeNumberYLargerThanX.
scwrud From: [info]scwrud Date: August 23rd, 2007 11:30 pm (UTC) (Link)

I'm having problems...

...wrapping my brain around how entertainment can both be quantized in minutes and be endless.
reveilles From: [info]reveilles Date: August 23rd, 2007 11:35 pm (UTC) (Link)

Re: I'm having problems...

I have the same issue with the phrase "hours of endless entertainment"... :)
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