[Gllug] ADVERT: Shell Scripting book

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:50:20AM +0100, Steve Parker wrote:

> If a programmer needs a variable name to be complete sentence, they are 
> probably doing something wrong.
> IMHO

There is a difference between a ''complete sentence'' and ''more than one word''.

Eg take the following possible variable names for the same thing, which one tells
you what it contains:

	last
	time
	update
	LastUpdateTime
	last_update_time

I would suggest one of the last 2 - which one according to preference.
I have seen people who use embedded capitals for global variables & _ in
variables local to a function.

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