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

[Szilárd Páll]

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 file names camelCase may not the best idea given that case
sensitivity is not supported (or used) by some file system (e.g. HFS+
by default, AFAIK).

>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Erik
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