[html-formfu] filename case

[Moritz Onken]

I'd prefer CamelCase too. The config should allow CamelCase as well as
spaces between words. And maybe without spaces also. That could be done
by lc'ing the class name and the config name and then comparing.

Just a thought...

Carl Franks schrieb:
> On 17/08/07, Brian Cassidy <brian.cassidy at nald.ca> wrote:
>> Carl Franks wrote:
>>> I'm not entirely happy with all element filenames being
>>> lowercase, and everything else being CamelCaps. What I think
>>> would be better, would be to have all files under: Elements/ 
>>> Deflators/ Filters/ Constraints/ Inflators/ Validators/ 
>>> Transformers/ to be lowercase - but let users write it in any
>>> case they want.
>> My personal opinion has been that class names should obey the
>> camelcase rules.
> 
> It's unfortunate that we're using perl class-names to represent 
> something so far removed.
> 
> I've looked back at my mail to the old html-widget list, when I 
> originally made the change to lowercase element types, and my 
> reasoning was that the CamelCase was giving too high a visual cue to 
> the type, when I thought that the field name was generally the most 
> important part of each field.
> 
> I've a feeling I had been following Larry's perl6 writings a bit too 
> much, and had my head in huffmanize-mode.
> 
> I now usually put a blank line between each field in my yaml files - 
> so the break before each 'name' is sufficient to lead the eye, and 
> keep track of where I am.
> 
> Sigh, I just didn't want to mess people about by renaming all the 
> Element files to CamelCase - when I did the exact opposite 5 months 
> ago. That's really the only reason I suggested such a complicated
> solution. And I feel the current inconsistency has the potential to
> cause confusion further down the line.
> 
> Okay, from what I can make out, discounting archive bots, there's 35 
> real people on this list. Seriously now, are any of you going to
> lynch me if I change the element filenames to CamelCase, and you have
> to change your config files to match?
> 
> Carl
> 
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