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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Fundamentals of C Variables

Posted by JASKARAN DHILLON
JASKARAN DHILLON
66 Points

signs

why is there this _ sin after every word?

1 Answer

Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,592 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,592 Points

Are you talking about the underscores that you see in variable and function names?

It's just a style of coding. It increases readability rather than jamming all the words together. We're used to spaces between words but we can't use spaces in variable names, etc... so we need a substitute for that.

Another style is to make the first word lowercase and every word after that uppercase. Again, to increase readability. There's no technical reason it has to be that way.