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GeneralRe: I'll see your curly braces & raise you a variable naming convention Pin
raddevus12-Dec-22 4:35
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Mircea Neacsu12-Dec-22 4:49
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Mircea Neacsu12-Dec-22 4:56
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Mircea Neacsu12-Dec-22 5:01
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trønderen12-Dec-22 6:04
trønderen12-Dec-22 6:04 
Another reason that made me dislike underscores (the the first one is hardcopy readability): Although you are right about upper case also being a double stroke, both the shift and the letter have identical positions on all keyboards, and you can keep your hands in the same position (as long as you have learned to use your left pinky for the shift key).

If you switch between different keyboards - especially keyboards adapted to different languages - punctuation and special characters such as underscore jumps all over the place. It took a few years to define a Norwegian standard placement for all those new characters that came with PCs, unknown on traditional typewriters, so if I dig up my oldest keyboards, even on Norwegian keyboards, they jump around. Using a Norwegian keyboard at home, a US English one at the office, and sometimes some machinery with its own keyboard layout, can be very frustrating.

Nowadays, on a Norwegian keyboard, underscore is shift-hyphen, the rightmost key in the bottom row, next to right shift. You have to move your right hand three-quarters off the keyboard to hit it. (That also goes for hyphen, even if it is un-shifted.)
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