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Naphtali Matione
5,224 Pointshow does camel casing work and what is its use
i failed to capture how camel casing works in java
2 Answers
Noah Schill
10,020 PointsAll camel casing is, is formatting a chain of words as follows:
The first word is lower-case, then any words following would begin with an uppercase letter. This is because, in Java, we cannot use spaces for method names or for variables, as this would separate them into separate commands. If we leave them all lowercase, we cannot distinguish the words between them. for example:
```myonvariable``` could be read as my own variable, myon variable myonv ariable, etc. By doing camel casing, we have an efficient and simple way to separate words without introducing any extra characters or leaving whitespace.
Mario Blokland
19,750 Pointsthe camel case in Java has no function at all. It is just convention for better readabilty of your code. If you wanted you could write your variables in lowercase only or put underscores between the words (without whitespace) and your code would still work the same. However, you should definitely use the camel case since it is an unwritten rule.
Also Java is case sensitive. So testVariable and testvariable would be two different variables.
Naphtali Matione
5,224 Pointsthanx mario
Mario Blokland
19,750 PointsYou are welcome Naphtali.
Naphtali Matione
5,224 PointsNaphtali Matione
5,224 Pointsthanx Noah