I often see Java class names like
XmlReader
instead of
XMLReader
My gut feeling is to completely upper case acronyms, but apparently many people think differently. Or maybe it's just because a lot of code generators are having trouble with acronyms...
So i would like to hear the the public opinion. How do you capitalize your class names containing acronyms?
Two reasons:
XmlHtmlConverter. Now XML and HTML aren't such good examples, because everyone knows what XML is, and what HTML is. But sometimes you'll see less obvious acronyms and then this becomes important.XmlHtmlConverter, you can type in XHC in the Open Type dialog and it will find it. For an XMLHTMLConverter, the initials would be XMLHTMLC which is of course a bit longer.I find that XMLReader is more difficult to read. The reason is that you can't easily tell where the words are separated. I believe that acronyms with lower case should be accepted. You may be able to use upper case for class definitions, but what about instance variables:
XmlReader xmlReader;
Here you have to use lower case anyhow.