How is this statement making sense? (Sun's naming convention for Java variables)

Posted by polygenelubricants on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by polygenelubricants
Published on 2010-04-26T04:40:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 4:43 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 207

Filed under:
|
|
|

I've been quoting this segment from Sun's document for the past few days, and only now do I stop and think about what it's saying, and I can't make sense out of it. Please keep in mind that English is not my first language.

Naming conventions

Variables: Except for variables, all instance, class, and class constants are in mixed case with a lowercase first letter.

How is this making sense? Isn't this saying that class names are in mixed case with a lowercase first letter? Like I should name it class myClass? And class constants are also in mixed case with a lowercase first letter? Like I should name it Integer.maxValue?

And is it really saying anything about how variables themselves should be named?

Am I not parsing this properly or is this actually a blatant error?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about subjective

Related posts about english