Names for Name Conventions

Written by Asanka Herath on August 24, 2020 | #Engineering

Names I’ve seen used to refer to naming conventions:

snake_case, hacker_case, unix_hacker_style : Everything is lower case, though exceptions exist. E.g. HTTP_foo_bar.
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE : Usually reserved for macros and constants.
camelCase : The first letter is lowercase.
PascalCase : The first letter is uppercase.
kabob-case : Like snake_case, but uses dashes instead of underscores. Common for command-line options¹, CSS styles, commands (e.g. git-receive-pack).

While looking idly looking for details on this, I stumbled on this Medium post which is relevant.

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