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How to handle acronyms in class names?

Instead of explaning I'll provide a simple and short example:

I would call a class that parses XMLs XMLParser. Sometime I run into problems, e.g. I want to create a class that labels XMLs, but XMLLabeler seems kind of odd, because of the two same letters.

Since XML is a wide spread term it should be no problem to resolve this 'issue', but for more complex acronyms this leaves a bad taste.

How would you handle these kind of things? Stricty applying camel case? I. e. XmlParser, XmlLabeler? Are there any naming conventions for acronyms in class names?

Solution

  • Camel Case (XmlParser) is the preferred way because it is easier to read