ZF2: Survey on ACRONYM casing or MixedCasing
There’s been a discussion on the Zend Framework mailing lists about how to capitalise acronyms when used in class names.
i.e. Zend\PDF or Zend\Pdf; Zend\XMLRPC or Zend\XmlRpc?
Matthew and the ZF team have decided that this issue needs to be sorted and so he posted recently:
Our team is at a point where we actually think the important thing is to simply have a rule. As such, we’re leaving it up to you, our users, to decide.
Simply fill out this form:
We’ll close it in a week or so, and use the decision from that form to determine how to proceed. We even promise to publicly export the results, in the interest of transparency.
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So, help choose the direction of ZF2 today!
So, if you use Zend Framework, please take the time to answer the question!


Richard Knop responded on 12 Jul 2010 at 10:29 am #
Well, I voted for MixedCasing. ACRONYM seems less readable because it is harder to see where one word ends and another begins.
This:
XmlHttpRequest
is better than this:
XMLHTTPRequest
David P. responded on 14 Jul 2010 at 5:35 pm #
Huh. Just getting “MDB2 Error: connect failed” from short.ie even shows up that way in Google’s cache.
Is there another link to the form?
Rob responded on 15 Jul 2010 at 7:52 am #
Hi David,
Try http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEtsV1NxLUYtOWZKTTN1cmVibV8tbEE6MQ
Regards,
Rob…