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From: knight@acm.org (Alan Knight)
Subject: Re: French naming convention
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In <4a9kb2$4dr@atlas.odyssee.net> efrutter@odyssee.net (Eric Fruttero) writes:

> For those of you who write software in french, I would like to know
>your opinion on these examples, if you had to chose a consistent
>naming convention :

> dateNaissance
> dateDeNaissance ?

I'm not a native French speaker, but I am currently working in French,
and the preferred convention here seems to be to omit the "de" entirely,
i.e. use dateNaissance.

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