11 Facts About Camel case

Camel case is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation.

Camel case is often used as a naming convention in computer programming, but is an ambiguous definition due to the optional capitalization of the first letter.

Camel case is distinct from title case, which capitalises all words but retains the spaces between them, and from Tall Man lettering, which uses capitals to emphasize the differences between similar-looking product names such as "predniSONE" and "predniSOLONE".

Camel case is distinct from snake case, which uses underscores interspersed with lowercase letters.

In Irish, camel case is used when an inflectional prefix is attached to a proper noun, for example, from ("Galway"); ("the Scottish person"), from ("Scottish person"); and ("to Ireland"), from ("Ireland").

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In Chinese pinyin, camel case is sometimes used for place names so that readers can more easily pick out the different parts of the name.

The PARC Mesa Language Manual included a coding standard with specific rules for upper and lower camel case that was strictly followed by the Mesa libraries and the Alto operating system.

Upper camel case is used in Wolfram Language in computer algebraic system Mathematica for predefined identifiers.

Camel case is used in some wiki markup languages for terms that should be automatically linked to other wiki pages.

Wikipedia formerly used camel case linking as well, but switched to explicit link markup using square brackets and many other wiki sites have done the same.

Camel case has been criticised as negatively impacting readability due to the removal of spaces and uppercasing of every word.