I agree, let’s just go with “XMLHttpRequest: open()” and be done with it. This is turning into an epic bikeshedding experience. 
Calling it
xmlHttpRequestseems very likely to confuse people here.
Multiple people we talked to said that this would make no difference to them.
let’s just go with “XMLHttpRequest: open()” and be done with it
Multiple people we talked to said that they like to copy and paste terms from their code editor to search with, and trust results that look similar, i.e. the dot is more significant than we first thought.
Saying all this, I don’t think there is actually a huge amount in it. I think the best options are either x.y() or x: y(). I still think we should call in the SEO expert to see how they think these would affect it. @sheppy, did you ask him to look at this already?
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I’ve filed https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/3487 and fixed a few of the cases where the syntax snippets were misleading because of apparent copy-pasting.