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Due to my (pseudo-)OCD, I feel compelled to remain consistent in writing code.
Among other things, that means that I attempt to stick to a certain style of capitalization (e.g. always capitalize the first letter of AHK commands, e.g. "If" instead of "if") - which also happens to improve readability.

However, I sometimes forget which style I'd agreed upon (with myself, natch) in a particular situation - e.g. whether only the first letter of "down" in {LAlt Down} should be capitalized, or whether it should be the whole word ("{LAlt DOWN}").

Unfortunately, AHK is way too forgiving - I wish it would enforce a certain way of capitalization.
I know that's selfish and kinda irrational - but don't blame me, blame my mind!

Anyways, I'm off to scrub the floors, and disinfect window sills, and clean up my desk, and ... *boom*

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Yeah! Confirmed.

At least you put that in the General Chat section, not the Wish List one!
Obviously, the permissiveness of AHK is ideal for its target audience: beginners.
Sometime I feel lazy and type msgbox for a line that will go away, but indeed I tend to capitalize according to case shown in AHK's manual.
Note that a solution is the one used by Visual Basic's IDE: let the user type any way he wants, but as soon as he types a separator, change the case if needed.
Of course, it needs to be done with your favorite editor. I suppose I could make a Lua script for SciTE to do that...
Another way is to have a simple script processor: for each keyword found, change case. Problem: some keywords are common English words (Right, Cancel, Focus...) and it is very hard to limit changes to keywords and not changing strings or comments...

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Don't agree with me - it's not healthy!

Well, since I don't have a blag, I figured this was the place to publish my ramblings...
Pff - screw the nubs!
Good idea! Now I just need PSPad to do that... (I only use SciTE as a Notepad replacement, or if I need to quickly edit a tiny bit of code.)

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Is there any need for this change?
I don't see any unreadable in the difference between IF, If or if or WINWAITACTIVE against WinWaitActive or winwaitactive. Or course they look a bit different at the first look and I prefer the second one, but the really unreadable scripts are those with one-capital variables, sometimes completely others with only one capital more.
There are also some other things that make things hardly readable without further investigation or comments (you'll find some good examples after Goyyah's sry SKAN's pointer-explanation )

I'm afraid of using "If" against "if", it doesn't fit my eye and I have to use 50% more keys for this often used word!
I'm using the style in help most of the time, but for quick and dirty programs I don't want to spend one thought at capitalization (and I'm writing such scripts very often )

(means: "Against it")

Thalon

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Yeah, because you know that the above if means If and not if, if it not means if or If or if, If if is meant! What makes it complicated to create an AutoCommandCapser (command or common word identification), is exactly what your brain has to accomplish. Fortunately in most of the cases you'd be able to make it, unfortunately that won't change the issue. Even if you deny it, it's tougher for you (means your brain) to a read/decrypt mixed mode text.

Wenn fliegen hinter fliegen fliegen, fliegen fliegen fliegen nach.

If it really doesn't matter you'd take this:
Wenn grillen grillen grillen, grillen grillen grillen
I'd take that:
Wenn Grillen Grillen grillen, grillen Grillen Grillen

IMHO, no. BTBH, Germans are used to cap Substantives and therefore it's less anoying.

Yes, but not a lot. Compared with reading code in general it is a very little part.
This problem also only occures when reading foreign code, because you should be able to read your style very well!

I see more disadvantages than advantages (of course I see the little advantages for the power-user in forum). That's simply my opinion.
I'll close this discussion for me, because I don't think any reasons could change my mind here...

Thalon

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Illegal syntax!!!

S/B
I know that's selfish and kind of irrational, but don't blame me, blame my mind!

BoBo hat's mal wieder auf den Punkt gebracht! Go, BoBo!
Thalon's got a point though; if you've trained your pattern recognition to your very own style, it probably won't make a huge difference anymore.
However, that only applies to your very own self, which is kinda selfish. A style conforming to certain standards of capitalization, however, would make your code more readable for everyone (screw individuality; go universality).
But it'd be naive trying to force a certain style upon anyone - that's why I really like the way brought up PhiLho.

Either way, I'm suprised this actually turned into a serious discussion - my original posting was more of a rant than anything else...


Oh, you'd better not be dissing my pathetic attempts at employing colloquialisms...
... wait, I'd better not be messin' with a Vampire, and a hot one at that...

PS: I'd prefer "syntax error" over "illegal syntax"... Although, if you were referring to "kinda" (instead of "kind of"), it's not really a syntax error, strictly speaking.

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Pattern recognition?


http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

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I you ever plan to go to Cambridge...

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tonne, this topic of scrambled letters has been raised already, it seems the text you gave has been cleverly made, not all scramblings are equally readable. Scripts to test have been given already.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Well, didn't bother to search for it (being in the General Chat - whoever this guy is - forum).
It recently popped up in my mailbox in a danish version. I will spare you for the danish text; scrambled or unscrambled it probably looks the same for most...

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I adopted the style Chris uses in the documentation:

• Single tab for indentation (old format)
• Labels unindented
• Functions, Ifs and Loops indented
• Capitalised command names (e.g. StringGetPos)
• If-expressions with no parenthesis where possible (not, !, :=, fx())

Of course I have my own traits like short and easy to remember variable names, K&R style and premature optimizations.

What's yours?

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I haven't read the whole topic, but Auto-Syntax-Tidyoffers the possibility to do case correction for most of AHK words.

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