kebab case

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The practice of writing identifiers using hyphens to separate words.

Word forms

kebab case 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.

Synonyms

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