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

[Erik Lindahl]

Hi,

On 28 Nov 2013, at 23:03, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah, transition-marking is useful. Camel case is not perfect either,
>> because now you have to wonder where to capitalise stuff like
>> PPPMELoadBalancing...
> 
> Yeah, I find that quite annoying and because of this I can't even
> argue that we should write a script and change back everything to
> underscores because p_p_p_m_e_load_balancing is not much better. :)

If you promise not to tell anybody I said this, for once I actually think _microsoft_ of all companies came up with a good standard for this case :-)

The MS standard is apparently that 2-letter acronyms are all-capital (e.g. IO), but anything 3 letters or longer is camelcased. Might not always be super-beautiful, but it’s a simple standard that makes it trivial to remember how to write things.


Cheers,

Erik