What are the different kinds of cases?

Question

I\'m interested in the different kinds of identifier cases, and what people call them. Do you know of any additions to this list, or other alternative names?

• myIde

Answer 1

+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Formatting               | Name(s)                                                     |
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------|
| namingidentifier         | flat case/Lazy Case                                         |
| NAMINGIDENTIFIER         | upper flat case                                             |
| namingIdentifier         | (lower) camelCase, dromedaryCase                            |
| NamingIdentifier         | (upper) CamelCase, PascalCase, StudlyCase, CapitalCamelCase |
| naming_identifier        | snake_case, snake_case, pothole_case, C Case                |
| Naming_Identifier        | Camel_Snake_Case                                            |
| NAMING_IDENTIFIER        | SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE, MACRO_CASE, UPPER_CASE, CONSTANT_CASE |
| naming-identifier        | Kebab Case/caterpillar-case/dash-case, hyphen-case,         |
|                          | lisp-case, spinal-case and css-case                         |
| NAMING-IDENTIFIER        | TRAIN-CASE, COBOL-CASE, SCREAMING-KEBAB-CASE                |
| Naming-Identifier        | Train-Case, HTTP-Header-Case                                |
| _namingIdentifier        | Undercore Notation (prefixed by "_" followed by camelCase   |
| datatypeNamingIdentifier | Hungarian Notation (variable names Prefixed by metadata     |
|                          | data-types which is out-dated)                              |
|--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+

Answer 2

Names are either generic, after a language, or colorful; most don’t have a standard name outside of a specific community.

There are many names for these naming conventions (names for names!); see Naming convention: Multiple-word identifiers, particularly for CamelCase (UpperCamelCase, lowerCamelCase). However, many don’t have a standard name. Consider the Python style guide PEP 0008 – it calls them by generic names like “lower_case_with_underscores”.

One convention is to name after a well-known use. This results in:

• PascalCase
• MACRO_CASE (C preprocessor macros)

…and suggests these names, which are not widely used:

• c_case (used in K&R and in the standard library, like size_t)
• lisp-case, css-case
• COBOL-CASE

Alternatively, there are illustrative names, of which the best established is CamelCase. snake_case is more recent (2004), but is now well-established. kebab-case is yet more recent and still not established, and may have originated on Stack Overflow! (What's the name for dash-separated case?) There are many more colorful suggestions, like caterpillar-case, Train-case (initial capital), caravan-case, etc.

Answer 3

MyVariable : Pascal Case => Used for Class

myVariable : Camel Case => Used for variable at Java, C#, etc.

myvariable : Flat Case => Used for package at Java, etc.

my_variable : Snake Case => Used for variable at Python, PHP, etc.

my-variable : Kebab Case => Used for css

Answer 4

• flatcase
• kebab-case. Also called caterpillar-case, dash-case, hyphen-case, lisp-case, spinal-case and css-case
• camelCase
• PascalCase or CapitalCamelCase
• snake_case or c_case
• MACRO_CASE or UPPER_CASE
• COBOL-CASE or TRAIN-CASE