On 10/25/02 3:30 PM, Rick <rnf@...> wrote:

> It's JayBird. David's call on that since he headed up the project.

Of course.

> It's also the Java naming convention.

The convention applies when concatenating words into a single class/variable
name. But "jaybird" is already a single real English word.

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=jaybird

Besides, the naming conventions apply to names of code elements, not names
of products.

When all is said and done, it doesn't really matter, as long as we are
consistent. And things are already inconsistent between the two news items
on the Firebird homepage, which is why I brought the matter up.


.T.

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