C# coding style?

dave_stewart

I was just wondering about the C# (I presume?) coding style behind Vanilla.

I generally change my coding style depending on the language I work with (AS3: camelCase, PHP: underscore_case).

I'm generally not too keen on SentenceCase methods and classes in C# as it's not as intuitive to distinguish between properties and classes, but nonetheless, that's what we've got, so I was wondering about the historical background behind the choice?

Cheers,
Dave

Linc

I'm not sure there's any reason to it other than it's what Mark and Todd started coding in because it was their preference.

S

Vanilla I was coded in this style too.
I very like CamelCase coding style name declaration, actionScript/javaScript/php_under_score style is really pissed me off.

I believe that Mark was coming to PHP from C# (or something similar ???.NET maybe)
Many functions names and class names are really same and do same things.

C# (???.NET):
String.IsNullOrEmpty (function)
DataSet class
SqlConnection.ConnectionString

PHP/Garden:
StringIsNullOrEmpty($String);
Gdn_DataSet
GetConnectionString

I like CamelCase style because it used in UnrealScript, and Unreal Tournament (UT2004) is my favorite game (I made a couple of mods/mutators for it).

dave_stewart

Thanks for the C# info there - I thought as much.

Personally, I always try to code in the style of the language - it makes it easier for others used to that style to read your code, and remains consistent with native members.

So even though I don't like the visual ambiguity of upper CamelCase Methods and Classes in C# (compared to lowercase camelCase methods and Classes) if I wrote C# I would probably stick to it.

Anyway, the question was in no way a moan - Garden is written so it ain't gonna change - I was just interested