On Aug 14, 11:17 ¨Βν¬ Ιξτςαξσιτιοξ Ότςαξσζ®®®ΐηναιμ®γονχςοτεΊ > If you are encapsulating something that is generally referred to by an > acronym, is it better to use all caps, even though in Ruby that > usually indicates a constant value of some sort other than a class or > module. Or is better to capitalize the term so it conforms to the > typical look of class/module names. > > Eg. > > XML::Document or- ¨ΒνμΊΊΔογυνεξτ > > POM::Metadata or- ¨ΒονΊΊΝεταδατα > > ANSI::Code -or- ¨ΒξσιΊΊΓοδ> > I can't seem to ever make up my mind about this, so I thought I'd ask > and see if there is some sort of general consensus or if someone else > has some sort of concrete basis on which to decide. POM is delicious. so POM should be capitalized. (but I myself use all caps for module/class names when such matches the actual spelling, and libraries such as Nokogiri and JSON seem to do this too, so that seems like the expected way of doing?)