Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 37990 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2004 20:31:08 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2004 20:31:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 76186 invoked by uid 500); 5 Jan 2004 20:30:55 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 76048 invoked by uid 500); 5 Jan 2004 20:30:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 76032 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2004 20:30:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO atlanta.seagullsw.com) (12.6.96.143) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2004 20:30:53 -0000 Received: by atlanta.seagullsw.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:30:56 -0500 Message-ID: <245A7290F0E0D311BF6E009027E7908B07204AB4@atlanta.seagullsw.com> From: Gary Gregory To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' Subject: RE: [uid] Uuid Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:30:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C3D3CA.D2238F8A" X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3D3CA.D2238F8A Content-Type: text/plain > > > For class names, Sun says to use mixed case name and ACRONYMS and for > > statics, use uppercase with underscores (MAX_WIDTH). Does this mean > > that we should have class names like XML_DOM_ReaderThing? > > No, it would be XMLDOMReaderThing, since a class is not a static member. > > --- Noel Which is what I not too seriously claim is inconsistent. I was trying to give a silly example where in one case, having all caps is a reading problem and underscores have to be used to split word boundaries, e.g. MAXWIDTH vs. MAX_WIDTH, and in the other case, for class names, nothing is mentioned XMLDOMReaderThing or c.net's VMSFTPEntryParser vs. an imaginary nasty VMS_FTPEntryParser (or VM_SFTPEntryParser? ;-) Gary ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3D3CA.D2238F8A--