0 the use of a capital letter to begin the second word in a compound name or phrase, when it is not separated from the first word by a space:
I remember a much earlier camel case which, alas!
Camel case may start with a capital or, especially in programming languages, with a lowercase letter.
In some applications multipart names are written with spaces, in others joined together, often in camel case; this article uses spaces and uppercase initials.
Camel case is also distinct from title case, which is traditionally used for book titles and headlines.
For clarity, this article calls the two alternatives upper camel case and lower camel case.
Some people and organizations use the term "camel case" only for lower camel case.
However, some languages and programmers chose to avoid underscores, among other reasons to prevent confusing them with whitespace, and adopted camel case instead.
Such patterns are identified by many users, ambiguously, as camel case.
