Hyphenation stage disappearing?

[Eric Nielsen]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 8/7/2013 12:03 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > > I work with a nonprofit that, ten years ago, adopted a name with
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> > > letters in the middle of words: PortSide NewYork.
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> >a.k.a. CamelCase
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> Shouldn't that be Bactrian-camelCased?  Not all kinds have two bunches.
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> Joel
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Or dromedary in some instances of lower CamelCase.

Some programming languages such as Basic and Java use lower CamelCase as
the preferred style for naming variables:

Dim lowerUpper As String

int lowerUpper;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa164538(v=office.10).aspx

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconventions-135099.html

There_is_also_snake_case_as_this_sentence_displays:


Eric

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