your style?

[falsepride]

whats your favorite variable style?

lowercase notation:my_name
cammel notation:myName

or for those who know languages that requiore yuo to define the type of each variable.

hungarian style

[sde]

you forgot about PascalCase

it really depends on what language i'm coding in. i used to only use one standard, but now it depends on the language i use. i try to conform to the standards of that language.

for example, on php.net, you will always see them using lowercase: $my_name

in java, you will see variable names in cammel case, and then Class names in pascal case. example: String myName = "Mike";

this helps tremendously when more than one person might be working on a project, or if you are modifying an existing application, or someone might modify your program in the future.

[falsepride]

what is pascal case?

[Belisarius]

If I don't know the accepted standard for a language, or at least can't guess it, I'll lapse into Java style just because it's the one I'm most comfortable with. Otherwise I try to stick to the language standard.

[sde]

Originally Posted by falsepride

what is pascal case?

First letter of each word upper case ( even the first word )

[idx]

Big willie style..

oh. I'm with sde on this. I seem to lapse into different styles depending on the language. I've never been a big fan of pascal, camel [studly] caps, but seem to use them much more with PHP Classes. Although the vars inside the class will be $my_var. Public methods will be: myFunction() and private methods: _myFunction(). (in php4 .. haven't done anything in 5 yet)

I pretty much stick to $my_var and my_cool_function() in perl.

-r

[Kernel_Killer]

I have to go for the "no one else will read my code easy except me" style. All lowercase, random characters, and have the 2nd or 3rd letter/number represent if it's a enum, array, local variable, etc,etc.

[ender]

I like mixedCase for variable names, with MixedCase for class and function names. This is just personal preference though. If I am working on a project with someone else, I'll obviously conform to whatever style they have for themselves. I have never liked function_name() stuff. I don't know why. Just my $.02.

[Admin]

i like fooBar() style.

[fp_unit]

I tend to switch it up with the language. If I'm doing Windows programming I tend to use czSomeString type style (hungarian I think) but I mostly stick with ThisIsAClass, someFunctionName and someVariableName. THIS_WOULD_BE_A_CONST but I try to stay away from a_variable and a_function unless I'm doing PHP or something (I basically code in C++, PHP and sometimes Java).