kebab case

English

Examples
number-of-arguments find-new-objects

Alternative forms

• kebab-case

Etymology

In allusion to the appearance of a shish kebab, with various food items assembled on a skewer. Additionally, the coincidence that kebabs and camels are both archetypally Near Eastern was probably not lost on the computer programmers who coined the names kebab case and camel case.

Noun

kebab case (uncountable)

1. (programming) The practice of writing identifiers using hyphens to separate words.

   Synonym: dash case

   Hypernyms: letter case, case, casing; styling, style; stylization

   Coordinate terms: snake case (with underscores); camel case, CamelCase; uppercase; lowercase

See also

• charstring
• hyphenated
• hyphenation