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+Brick has a historical reason to use underscores between pascal-case words to easily separate them with rules. Given that now we are explicitly defining facets of classes, we can remove the underscores and use pure pascal-case for class names.
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+This will give much cleaner coding conventions and better readability for end users.
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+We can keep backwards compatibility for the old class names by creating aliases for them, but we should encourage users to switch to the new naming convention.