JavaScript Design

Naming Rules and Conventions

All the rules for naming functions and variables discussed previously in the section on case sensitivity apply. If you name your variables or functions beginning with any letter in either uppercase or lowercase or with an underscore or dollar sign, the name is considered legitimate. For the most part, in naming variables, avoid using dollar signs as the first character because they can be confusing to Basic programmers, who might associate the dollar sign with a string variable, or PHP programmers, who begin all variables with a dollar sign.

You cannot have spaces in the names that you use for variables or functions. Many programmers use uppercase letters or underscores to make two words without a space. For example, ...