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JavaScript

brayant benitez
brayant benitez
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Posted by brayant benitez
brayant benitez
7,885 Points

Camelcase

Joy mentioned Camelcase, is it only directed to making the language easier to read or will it cause any impact on the program itself?

Domenic Carobine
Domenic Carobine
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Domenic Carobine
Domenic Carobine
9,014 Points

It's just the convention in JavaScript for naming variables, function, etc. You can use underscores like other languages in JavaScript, but sticking with camelcase will make your code more readable by other JavaScript users.

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Erik Nuber
Erik Nuber
20,629 Points
Erik Nuber
Erik Nuber
20,629 Points

It just makes things easier to read and faster to type. Any way you declare legal variables makes no real difference. It is just common practice to use camel case.

var areallylongvariablenameishardertoread,

     aReallyLongVariableNameIsHarderToRead,

     a_really_long_variable_name_is_harder_to_read;

all would work just fine.