Is there a recommended naming convention?

As JavaScript is case sensitive, does anyone know if there is a recommended naming convention for variable, function and object (class) names?

 

When I was new and looking at the examples, I easily got confused about what terms were built into Unity vs. what were variables or script names that could be anything. Maybe all-caps or all-lowercase would help avoid that.

Other than that, I think whatever you find readable is best! The examples/tutorials might show what others have done.

 

I've always seen class names being uppercase and members/variables being lowercase. lowercase class names confuse the hell out of me because I think they're variables.

 

Yep, lowercase for variables and uppercase for class names and functions.

--Eric

 

In OO programming one very common approach is:

• => ThisIsAClass
  => thisIsAFunction( )
  => thisIsAVariable
  => _thisIsAClassVariable
  => IThisIsAnInterface

And exceptions usually have Exception in the end, e.g. IOException, FileNotExistentException.

Can't recall of anything else right now.

Regards,
Afonso

 

The convention I work to is:

• Class
• Function()
• propertyOrLocalVariable
• m_MemberVariable (because Unity automatically strips the m_ prefix)

This is consistent with Unity's API.

 

Thanks for everyone's replies.

I think it's probably best to go with the Unity consistent convention.