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1. Naming: Why should named constants be all uppercase in C++/Java?    stackoverflow.com

I know, that for C++ and Java it is a well established naming convention, that constants should be written all uppercase, with underscores to separate words. Like this (Java-example):

public final static ...

2. Naming convention for a variable that works like a constant    stackoverflow.com

I have a variable that I'm using like a constant (it will never change). I can't declare it as a constant because the value gets added at runtime. Would you capitalize the ...

3. Naming convention for constants    coderanch.com

Hi All, I got very confused when I read the naming convention for constants in the Sun coding standards. Pls consider this given situation. class TestConstants { public static final int ----------- (1) private static final int ---------- (2) public static final Logger ----------- (3) private static final Logger ----------- (4) } Could you please let me know the naming conventions ...

4. constant - naming conventions    coderanch.com

Hi, java naming conventions say that constants should be in upper case. In our company I saw declaration of log4j: private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(...); So I was wondering why it's not 'LOG'. After some search there were two groups of people, one that uses 'LOG' and the other one that uese 'log'. The argument for using 'log' was ...