# Is there a Julia Style Guide?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, formatting, best-practices\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-julia-style-guide/80195 "2022-04-28T09:32:04Z")\
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> [@DNF](#):
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> Imho, if your function name has underscores, refractor, or come up with a better name.

> [@Henrique\_Becker](#):
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> Using underscores does not hinder creating better names.

Is it too late to make Julia variable names insensitive to underscores and letter case, like [Nim](https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-identifier-equality) does? That might help solve the debate 🙃

(Kidding, that’s definitely [not an option now](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-julia-is-not-at-that-stage-of-development-anymore/44872) 😆)

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