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In article <48a55876.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> shelley@atc.sps.mot.com (Norman K. Shelley) writes:
>Comments on I.S.E.'s proposed changes for Eiffel 3.0 (14Feb90)
> ... assorted non-controversial comments ...
>Page 240 of "Eiffel: The Language" states that "internal upper-case letters ...
>as in putAtRight, contradicts the standard conventions of English ...
>and is not
>part of the recommended style."  I agree BUT must note that the
>underscore ('_')

This opinion has bothered me for some time, and I couldn't quite place why,
until I happened to be typing in an address.  There are, in fact, words
used in English, though they are proper names to be sure, which have
internal upper-case letters.  McDonnell, LeCompte, etc., etc.  The fact
that they are names doesn't hurt the argument: that's exactly what the
symbols of a computer language are.  That they are accretions from other
languages is true, but not very important; that's where most words in
English have come from.

So there is a precedent for internal upper-case, and now I have a
justification for using a style that happens to suit me.
1/2 :-)

Bruce Cohen
brucec@tekcrl.labs.tek.com
Computer Research Lab, Tektronix Laboratories
Tektronix, Inc.
M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR  97077