[gmx-developers] no delimiters in file names from 5.0?

[Mark Abraham]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Erik Lindahl
<erik.lindahl at scilifelab.se>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 28 Nov 2013, at 22:08, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some new C files in (say) fileio and timing modules have underscores.
> The new C++ files tend to be named according to a major class that they
> implement, which are also not named with delimiters. Not needing to
> interrupt keyboard flow with shift-minus is a small advantage, but I would
> prefer readability over that! Different people's brains work differently,
> too!
>
> Wasn’t the plan to convert to camelCase?
>

For identifiers, sure, and that has happened for the new C++ files I've
seen. It sure never occurred to me that we might want a/that convention for
filenames. Unsurprisingly, we've left Teemu to his own devices for so long
he's suited himself ;-)

Part of that was to make it clear what things had been translated into C++
> while the move is in progress, but another small advantage over the
> underscores is that it is easy to add _lots_ of delimiters in long names
> without extending the length of the identifier, instead of coming up with
> nonstandard abbreviations that are hard for other developers to decipher.
>

Yeah, transition-marking is useful. Camel case is not perfect either,
because now you have to wonder where to capitalise stuff like
PPPMELoadBalancing...

I would also hate to have different standards for short vs. long
> identifiers, with each developer deciding when an underscore might look
> good to have, or when a name short enough to do without it. With
> gmxCamelCase we would always write gmxAssert.cpp too?
>

Happy to do that, but it's not a high priority.

Mark

Cheers,
>
> Erik
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