How do you name a class and the name should stand ...

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[rrader]

How do you name a class and the name should stand for: iPhoneX, iOS ?
Do you name them IPhoneX and IOS? or how do you name a class if the name in real world starts with lowercase letter?

[karelpeeters]

Always, without exception, start class names with an uppercase letter.

[rrader]

Why so?

[gildor]

Because of Coding Convention

[rrader]

Why than is not restricted by compiler?

[karelpeeters]

Because we rely on capitalization to tell us whether something is a class or a variable/function.

[karelpeeters]

Because it's not helpful to enforce such a thing.

[gildor]

Kotlin is not so strict about it, you can use own, but official convention requires that

[rrader]

Because it's not helpful to enforce such a thing.

it is helpful, compiler can be much simpler

[gildor]

simpler?

[gildor]

There are a lot of tools that can force you to specific coding convention

[rrader]

yeap, when you parse a string, if it starts with capital you already know that it must be a class

[gildor]

I don’t think so, because other identifiers can use capital letters too, for example objects, constants etc

[Czar]

hm... word class is quite a giveaway, even before you notice a capital letter 🙂

[rrader]

but in function body you don't have class

[Czar]

and in places other than class declaration Andrey's comment applies, you can't rely on capitalization there.

[rrader]

we can inforce variables and function to start with lowercase

[rrader]

methods and properties start with lower case

[rrader]

than we for sure know what it should be

[gildor]

See comment from Dmitry Jemerov about strict coding convention
https://github.com/yole/kotlin-style-guide/issues/14#issuecomment-222932510

[rrader]

so, everyone agree to start class with capital, but do not enforce that in compiler, okay

[gildor]

@rrader Also, I’m not a professional in compilers, but I’m very sceptical that naming convention could some how help to compiler

[rrader]

well, class somehow helps in parsing, in same way this will help

[gildor]

class is a keyword that cannot be used anywhere except class creation, lower or capital letter can be used everywhere, including keywords