@IsabelB
@Natasha_Jay

Nice photos. :-)

I got a little choked up seeing the Irish passport. Hopefully some day there will be a united Ireland.

Also, #CamelCase is nice:
#TransAtSixty #TransVisibility

@tripplehelix @joel @MekahimeAkari

Not that Meta, but meta in the sense of the thing itself, or folded on itself.

In this sense, meta-evil (it was capitalized because my brain was in hashtag #CamelCase mode, apparently), because it's evil the way he uses evil. XD

@angelastella

It's fine for code but also (a) harder to explain/teach, (b) harder to automate, (c) badly supported on Mastodon (incremental search usually smashes case).

I think Mastodon has gotten better at preserving #CamelCase in hashtags. #GoToSocial is working on it, it's still really bad right now (always flattening/tolower()-ing).

I can see being a bit harder to explain/teach, although I'm not sure what cases of automation you're referring to.

I guess my main thing (and perhaps it's a silly one) is that _ is harder to reach than just capitalizing (and not spacing out) the next word. XD

I have no issues with Pascal (Borland's implementations and docs were excellent), but I had to learn C immediately afterwards like everyone else.

I used Borland on the PC and Symantec/THINK on the Mac. Both absolutely lovely.
Symantec Pascal on the (emulated) mac was actually a stepping stone towards @neaoire@merveilles.town's development of #uxn, IIRC. They even developed a 3d game in Pascal on the Mac (heavily accelerated, of course)

@angelastella

Hey now, #CamelCaseIsLovely

I cut my teeth on Pascal, I'll never stop using #CamelCase. XD

@h3mmy @rootsandcalluses is this the way to pedantry corner? Shall we head there together?

Camel case is the first letter of every word after the first capitalized. #camelCase. The first letter of every word, including the first is Pascal case: #PascalCase.

These are both terms of art in programming. Pascal case, in particular, comes from the Pascal programming language.

Title case is different in that minor words aren’t capitalized, and is used in literature (sort of, certainly not programming) for titles and headlines:

Netizens Discuss Capitalization in Pedantry Corner: Homo sapiens Mid-conversation Share

The above title confioms to the Chicago Manual of Style (whose title also conforms) by not capitalizing 4 of 11 words.

Now to make this useful: both camal case and Pascal case address the issue at hand; title case doesn’t, but the expression may be useful to communicate the idea of Pascal case to a general audience.

References:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/capitalization-conventions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

@Hippie Das klingt jetzt vielleicht zunächst etwas kleinlich, aber wenn auch der erste Buchstabe immer ein Großbuchstabe wäre, nennt man es #PascalCase (oder UpperCamelCase) bei #camelCase (eigentlich LowerCamelCase) hingegen ist der erste Buchstabe immer klein. Finde ich wichtig, wenn man einen "Styleguide" verabschieden würde, schon bei der Definition präzise zu sein. Sonst ist das Ergebnis nachher uneinheitlich.
@OskarImKeller @wurzelmann

@OskarImKeller @wurzelmann
Das wäre ein riesiger Hebel um #CamelCase durchzusetzen! Einfach die Vorschläge (fast) immer CamelCased haben. Bei mir scheiterts halt echt meistens daran leider...
Opt out statt opt in :)

@_elena @dmoonfire

I want to say Mastodon has gotten better at this, but if you're writing a hashtag in #CamelCase and the prevalent usage of that hashtag isn't camelcased, then it will probably get overwritten by your client's "suggestion."

You just have to be extra vigilant about avoiding the bad autocorrect. :(

It's very annoying, especially when the camelcase could happen kind of automatically using a simple dictionary.

@dmoonfire

That's a great idea, but it does involve some guesswork.

Obvious:

#CamelCase
#NotSilly

Less obvious:

#IAmALlama
#IsThisJUstATypo

#BSkyTopTip Using a hashtag made up of more than one word? Use #CamelCase (capitalise the first letter of each word): it allows screen readers to parse them correctly, and generally makes them easier to interpret for everyone: Is #speedofart supposed to be #SpeedOfArt or #SpeedoFart?

@stefan @Claire

I never could figure out why CamelCase was ignored in the first place.

'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent

@writing @sociology