From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-20 18:07:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:07:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:08:06 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ References: <2cfd1a4e.0309252032.3e3c0a1a@posting.google.com> <266426e1.0309280217.15508f70@posting.google.com> <3F939185.7050809@crs4.it> In-Reply-To: <3F939185.7050809@crs4.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <0x6cnZPyjJ5JGwmiXTWJlg@gbronline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.116 X-Trace: sv3-fxFpo7NqGgn3Ec42hv2INNcawBtaVuR3BCtk1egR2VJWgg2x+P8ihW6u4xVDhIqFmHWs0Sh7ODC5VJB!XwMr+3ctAwkYVccxgZk6Us2rdbkiwCw4m7yDwj0flsbgf7InTuRW6xQCSGZSK63Z4xDZn70HOmam!7w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software-eng:20832 comp.programming:1283 comp.lang.c++:3281 comp.lang.ada:1238 Date: 2003-10-20T20:08:06-05:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > James Dow Allen wrote: >> abbreviate them as the first 4 (or whatever) letters, consistently. So Bandshift should be abbreviated Band ? Megahertz should be Mega, not MHz ? Message should be Mess, not Msg ? > I prefer the suggestion from the Ada style guide (IIRC) that you don't > abbreviate words, and that you only use acronyms from a limited > project-specific list. And that list should be designed to include only a limited number of items, using the abbreviation that is already widely used in the problem domain. (If no widely-used abbreviation exists, the item should not be abbreviated.) And the following practice is sad, but it does happen in some places: Problem: "Abbreviation is not on the approved list." Solution: "Change the list; we're building TODAY." -- Wes Groleau Is it an on-line compliment to call someone a Net Wit ?