LEXICON - Typographical Convention

Camel Case

Camel Case (also known as lowerCamelCase, dromedary case or illustratively as camelCase) is a writing convention to connect words with no spaces and punctuations to create compound name or phrase where all words are capitalized, except the first one.

Example: bookingId

Pascal Case

Pascal Case (also known UpperCamelCase or illustratively as PascalCase) is a writing convention to create compound word and phrases by connecting multiple capitalized words with no space or punctuation.

Example: LoanCalculator

Snake Case

Snake Case (also known potholecase or illustratively as snake_case) is a writing convention to create compound create compound name by replacing the spaces between words with underscores ().

Example: max_temperature

Screaming Snake Case

Screaming Snake Case (or illustratively as SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE) is a subset of Snake Case where all the letters are uppercase.

Example: NUMBER_OF_AGENTS

Kebab Case

Kebab Case (also known as spinal case, dash case, param case, Lisp case or illustratively as kebab-case) is a writing convention to create compound word or phrase by replacing the spaces between words with hyphens (-).

Example: user-count

Train Case

Train Case (or illustratively as TRAIN-CASE) is a subset of Kebab Case where all the letters are uppercase.

Example: STUDENT-COURSE

Dotted Case

Dotted Case (or illustratively as dotted.case) is a writing convention to create compound word or phrase by replacing the spaces between words with dots (.).

Example: java.util.collections

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