camel case method names

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Jeremy picture Jeremy · Oct 22, 2009 · Viewed 22.6k times · Source

I understand the reason to camel case variable names, but I've always wondered why you would camel case a method name? why is it toString() and not ToString()? What purpose does it serve?

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Bill picture Bill · Oct 22, 2009

A lot of conventions say you capitalize the first letter of types (classes, structs, enums, etc.), and use lowercase otherwise (functions, members, etc.).

If you follow that convention, you can then tell just by looking that MyStruct.MyType refers to a nested type, and MyStruct.myData refers to some form of data, and MyStruct.myFunc() refers to a function call.

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