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Learning Julia
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Learning Julia

by Anshul Joshi, Rahul Lakhanpal
November 2017
Beginner
316 pages
6h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Naming conventions

Although Julia doesn’t have many restrictions on naming and most combinations are allowed, it is good to follow some conventions as good practices:

  • Generally, variable names are written in lowercase.
  • Underscores are used to separate different words in a variable name, but it is not advisable to use names that would require underscores.
  • Function and macros names are in lowercase. Underscores are not used.
  • The first character of types and modules is uppercase. The separation between words in names is done using upper camel case.
  • The functions that modify or write to any of their arguments end with "!" symbol.

We mentioned earlier that Julia is a strongly-typed language. Therefore, it is necessary for a variable’s type to ...

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