perl naming convention

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

I'm wondering what is the widely accepted naming convention. In C++,
boost library recommend

1. All variables, functions and classes shall not have upper cases.
2. Macro shall be upper cased.

I'm wondering what is the convention for perl.

Thanks,
Peng

 

[Joost Diepenmaat]

Hi,

I'm wondering what is the widely accepted naming convention. In C++,
boost library recommend

1. All variables, functions and classes shall not have upper cases.
2. Macro shall be upper cased.

I'm wondering what is the convention for perl.

In short:

functions and variables should be lower_case_like_this

class names/package names should be CamelCase::LikeThis

constants, (old-style) file handles, formats and package/global
variables should be UPPER_CASE_LIKE_THIS or $LIKE_THIS

When you have combinations they Look::Like::THIS or $Like::this etc.

See for in intro: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlstyle.html

 

[Tad J McClellan]

Hi,

I'm wondering what is the widely accepted naming convention. In C++,
boost library recommend

1. All variables, functions and classes shall not have upper cases.
2. Macro shall be upper cased.

I'm wondering what is the convention for perl.

perldoc perlstyle