pascalcasing

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pascalcasing - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  PascalCasing
  
  
     The practice of marking all word boundaries in long identifiers (such
     as ThisIsASampleVariable) (including the first letter of the
     identifier) with uppercase. Constrasts with camelCasing, in which the
     first character of the identifier is left in lowercase
     (thisIsASampleVariable), and with the traditional C style of short
     all-lower-case names with internal word breaks marked by an
  underscore
     (sample_var).
  
     Where these terms are used, they usually go with advice to use
     PascalCasing for public interfaces and camelCasing for private ones.
     They may have originated at Microsoft, but are in more general use in
     ECMA standards, among Java programmers, and elsewhere.