Given that some of the characters in the original were italicised, I think that there were probably some stars in there that Markdown ate. My question wasn't r

Given that some of the characters in the original were italicised, I think that there were probably some stars in there that Markdown ate. My question wasn't really what operation it performs or tries to perform, but rather what abakus (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473616) meant by comparison with lower_UPPER_CamelCase.