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Greppability is an underrated code metric (morizbuesing.com)
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[โ€“] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The dash - vs underscore _ is also a common "problem" with CLI arguments --file-name, that are mapped to variable names file_name.

[โ€“] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, translating between cases isn't exactly a problem IME. Might be neat to have a case-aware grep though, so you can get kebab-case, snake_case, camelCase and PascalCase all done in one go.