Re: camel-casing convention

[Tony Coates <Tony.Coates@reuters.com>]

On 07/05/2001 20:09:06 Norman Walsh wrote:

>/ Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com> was heard to say:
>|   General:  Why do we have all uppercase URI in delegateURI but
>| we have all lowercase uri for the uri entry type?
>
>Because the editor isn't sure how to balance the conflicting
>conventions of capitalizing "URI" and using initial-lowercase camel
>case for identifiers.

In other specs I work on, acronyms are treated as words for the purposes of
camel-casing (is that a word?), so it would be "delegateUri".  It's not a bad
design rule, simply because it tends to avoid questions like the above from
arising.

     Cheers,
          Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates
Leader of XML Architecture & Design
Chief Technology Office
Reuters Plc, London.
tony.coates@reuters.com
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