I do like snake_case but a lot of this feels a bit circular, effectively just saying that it's good because it's already used by the author's code and things it interacts with.
I'd like kebab-case even more if it weren't for the annoying detail that `-` is also subtraction.
rglover · 2026-07-01 16:26:30 UTC
That's why I made the point about consistency mattering more than taste/style here. My personal preference is toward snake_case, but if your own preference is kebab-case, as long as you're consistent, great.
efortis · 2026-07-01 16:28:48 UTC
My workaround was a editing a font with a much longer space char and with a 1/3 of a space of left padding on uppercase letters.
I’m partial to SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE mostly because it makes me giggle when I picture it.
mac3n · 2026-07-01 17:59:49 UTC
I've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in the 1960s.
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I'd like kebab-case even more if it weren't for the annoying detail that `-` is also subtraction.
https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel
The problem is that it looses tabular alignment, so I wrote an IDE plugin for tabularizing some blocks.
https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye
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Similar to my font, emacs has a plugin that adds a little underscore.
https://codelearn.me/2025/02/24/emacs-glasses-mode.html