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