On 12/8/05, Rich <rjseagraves / gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be interested to know *why* it is a language convention, and more
> important why it is a lanaguage convention that from this thread it
> seems rubyists vigorously insist upon?  For those of us who were
> "raised" with a language like Java (or as some on this list may say,
> brain damaged ;-), lowerCamelCase seems more pleasing to the eye than
> identifiers_with_underscores.

I was "raised" on C and then went to Java and am now learning Ruby, so
underscores are I what I started with.  In trying to conform to the
Ruby conventions, it is a welcome thing to go back to underscores
instead of camelCase, but that's just my own preference.

later...
jim