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I mean, it's harder to read compared to normal text with spaces and punctuation.

That doesn’t seem to be the case based on the study. And normal for one thing, such as paragraphs of prose, might not translate to another thing, such as a sequence of words in a line of code.

> That doesn’t seem to be the case based on the study.

The study does not say that camelCase is unequivocally as easy, or easier, to read.

Selecting the correct identifier from a list of 2-3 words (expandAliasTable, expandAliasTitle, etc.) is a wholly different exercise.

Ah thank you for actually reading the referenced study

That’s just one study, and I’d argue we should write books in camel case to make them more compact if there’s truly no difference.

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