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Whats your go-to naming convention? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As far as I know there are these;

Camel case = coolFileName
Snake case = cool_file_name
Kebab case = cool-file-name
Pascal case = CoolFileName
Dot notation = cool.file.name
Flat case = coolfilename
Screaming case = COOLFILENAME

Personally I prefer the kebab/dot conventions simply because they allow for easy "navigation" with (ctrl+arrow keys) between each part. What are your preferences when it comes to this? Did I miss any schemes?

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[–] otp 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Camel case, but with a twist -- if the next word is about to start after a capital letter, I'll have it lower case.

topSecretFBIfile.txt for example

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'd tend to demote the initialism, ie topSecretFbiFiles.tar.gz

[–] otp 2 points 2 months ago

That's probably more commonly accepted. I defer to whatever my team is doing, but for my own files, I wouldn't want things like UsStudentList or USStudentList which both look wrong to me.

USstudentList looks right to me, and if that's wrong, I'm okay with being wrong! Haha