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[Warren Myers]

I personally like to use compact variable names, and keep them as tightly
scoped as possible. In fact, I don't recall the last time I used a variable
whose length was more than 10 characters - it's just not necessary in my
opinion.

I also come from a C/C++ background, so I tend to think of everything in
lowercase - only capitalizing when using external libraries that someone
else wrote.

WMM

On 9/28/06, Billy Reisinger <billy.reisinger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why not be consistent and make the"w" be upper case as well
> > $WillGoBackUnderMySteamyPileNow = true;
> >
>
> Some people reserve capitalized variables for class names only, so
> that function names and variable names will always start with a small
> letter:
>
> class NutJob {
>         var $crazyPerson = "billy";
>         function whackCrazyPersonOverTheHead(person) { ... }
> }
>
> Seems like a good practice to me.
>
> > I canät tell you how often I borked my
> > script by just leaving out an e or an s in a variable name.
>
> I have this same problem.  One thing I have found to help is using an
> auto-complete feature in my text editor.  Not only has it saved me
> typing time, but also I don't spend as much time debugging, only to
> find I misspelled some huge variable name.  I know jEdit has auto-
> complete, probably Eclipse, too...
>
>
>
>
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