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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PascalCasing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="Pascal.html" title="Pascal"/><link rel="next" href="pastie.html" title="pastie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PascalCasing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Pascal.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="pastie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PascalCasing"/><dt xmlns="" id="PascalCasing"><b>PascalCasing</b></dt></dt><dd><p>The practice of marking all word boundaries in long identifiers (such
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as <span class="symbol">ThisIsASampleVariable</span>) (including the first letter of
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the identifier) with uppercase. Constrasts with <span class="firstterm">camelCasing</span>, in which the first character of
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the identifier is left in lowercase
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(<span class="symbol">thisIsASampleVariable</span>), and with the traditional C style
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of short all-lower-case names with internal word breaks marked by an
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underscore (<span class="symbol">sample_var</span>).</p><p>Where these terms are used, they usually go with advice to use
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PascalCasing for public interfaces and camelCasing for private ones. They
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may have originated at Microsoft, but are in more general use in ECMA
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standards, among Java programmers, and elsewhere.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Pascal.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="pastie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Pascal<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>pastie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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