Hi Tony, Norm, Lauren and all;
My vote goes with "camelCase" or "CamelCase", and my reason is the same as
Lauren's.
Regards,
David Leland
Lauren Wood <> on 12/03/2000 05:27:32 PM
To:
cc: (bcc: David Leland/LONDON/FINANCIAL TIMES)
Subject: Re: first proposal
On 3 Dec 2000, Tony Coates wrote:
>
>
> On 29/11/2000 14:11:23 Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> >Matter of taste, I guess. That means we have four choices:
> >
> >1. All UPPERCASE, as per 9401
> >2. All lowercase
> >3. camelCase like XML Schema, Java identifiers, etc.
> >4. CamelCase like the SGML DocBook DTD (though only because case
> > didn't matter)
>
> Sorry to do this, but I would like to suggest #5:
>
> 5. UpperCamelCase for elements, lowerCamelCase for attributes.
>
> Privately, the touch-typist in me prefers lower-case-with-hyphens
Which would be proposal number 6? If we're figuring out which of 1-
5, why not 1-6?
The main reason I don't like all lower, or all upper, is that the words
run together. Almost anything that solves that problem gets my
vote.
Lauren
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