Level constants screaming CAPS

[alextekartik]

Level constants still have screaming CAPS such as:

static const Level FINEST = const Level('FINEST', 300);

Is there any plan to change that (or is this package to be deprecated) or would you accept any pull request on this. If yes would change be for the previous example:

static const Level finest = const Level('FINEST', 300);

or

static const Level finest = const Level('finest', 300);

[natebosch]

See some discussion at dart-archive/logging#46

I'm somewhat inclined to do this - there will be a fair amount of churn but it's not going to be difficult to do and we'll be churning lots of code anyway.

@kevmoo @jakemac53 - assuming we'll be having a breaking version bump for null safety - would you still be opposed to this?

[kevmoo]

In general, I support this, too. A big change, though. We can do the deprecation dance, etc – just a bit of work.

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[allentv]

Is there an industry wide preference to move away from ALL CAPS to lowercase? If so, then I would say the cost of switching would be justified. When I started programming 15 years ago, constants were always in ALL CAPS. Haven't heard any discussions on this case recently though. So I am curious to understand why the inclination towards the change in case?

[natebosch]

Is there an industry wide preference to move away from ALL CAPS to lowercase?

There is at least a Dart preference. https://dart.dev/guides/language/effective-dart/style#prefer-using-lowercamelcase-for-constant-names

[mleonhard]

Do not make this change. See the detailed explanation in dart-lang/sdk#58508 .