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snake-cased

snake-cased adjective: in snake case.

Adjective

snake-cased (not comparable)

  1. In snake case.
    • The model name may be given in camel-cased or snake-cased format, and options can be provided if you want to automatically populate the resulting migration with column information.2013, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr., Rida Al Barazi, Beginning Rails 4, Apress, →ISBN, page 32
    • This list is stored as a Hash, where each key is a “snake-cased” representation of the class name and each value is a Class object representing the class itself.2014, Jon Cowie, Customizing Chef: Getting the Most Out of Your Infrastructure Automation, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 269

Examples of snake-cased in a sentence

  • It’s idiomatic to use lowercased, snake-cased field names.2017, Barrett Clark, Data Visualization Toolkit: Using JavaScript, Rails, and Postgres to Present Data and Geospatial Information...
  • The argument of the command should be a snake-cased description of what the migration will do: $ php artisan make:migration create_listings_table2017, Anthony Gore, Full-Stack Vue.js 2 and Laravel 5, Packt, →ISBN, page 79:
  • awrence converts snake-cased Hash keys to camel case, which you can then convert to camel-cased JSON.2017, Tom Marrs, JSON at Work: Practical Data Integration for the Web, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 65:
  • This is because, as discussed in Appendix B, the dummy app mounts the engine under test at its snake-cased name by default, which is app_component in our case.2018, Stephan Hagemann, Component-Based Rails Applications: Large Domains Under Control (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)...

Forms of snake-cased

alternative formsnake_cased

Origin of snake-cased

From snake case + -ed.

Questions about snake-cased

What does snake-cased mean?
Snake-cased means in snake case.
How do you use snake-cased in a sentence?
It’s idiomatic to use lowercased, snake-cased field names.
What part of speech is snake-cased?
Snake-cased is an adjective.

Words near snake-cased in the dictionary

  1. snake's tongue
  2. snake's-head
  3. snake's-heads
  4. snake-bite
  5. snake-bites
  6. snake-cased
  7. snake-eating cobra
  8. snake-eating cobras
  9. snake-eel
  10. snake-eels
  11. snake-fear

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