FWIW, there are already well-entrenched naming conventions which tend to make reference within the PHP community at large. See for instance the Zend conventions for Zend Framework: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.naming-conventions.html In short: a mix of underscores and CamelCaps :-) Not even mentioning our own (osinet) coding conventions... I'll leave it to the curious to look for them; they include a comparison of the conventions in Drupal, ZF, PEAR, and our own style. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Robertson" <seanr@ngpsoftware.com> To: <development@drupal.org> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [development] Module naming conventions (was Re: Naming theCVSabstraction module)
FWIW, I've never had any trouble typing underscores. I definitely do prefer them to camelCase. I just think it looks cleaner. Not sure this should be considered a hugely critical issues for contrib projects, but I'd like to keep the code style for core as is. [...]