What's the point of camel-case-navigation?

Question

I heavily use CTRL+ to jump between tokens in code (the _s are the navigation points):

_fooBar _+ _barFoo_;

Some editors, like the one in the current version of QtCreator, have (by default or optionally) camel case navigation, which goes like this:

_foo_Bar _+ _bar_Foo_;

What is the rationale behind this? I remember some people back in school saying "cool" and "fancy", but is that the whole story? I do not think it is cool, I find it very annoying actually.

Answer 1

I would say it's a matter of personal choice, I do work with both settings, in home and in work, and I must say, that altough I think I prefer whole word jumping (1st example), 2nd one sometimes is convenient. From time to time I tent to have longer variable names, for example when I name maps<> or Dictionaries<>: fooBarByZar. when I want to c&p substring from this name, or jump to a word I am interested in changing, for example - renaming, it's easy to do with 2nd setting, especially when ctrl+short will not only jump 1 "subword" but also select it for copying.

Btw. the best things are simple. Simple things can be useful and complicated ones can just get into your way, so implementation simplicity is not something a feature should be judged for in my opinion.