From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 26 Nov 91 16:32:22 GMT From: bwalker@marlin.nosc.mil (Beth Walker) Subject: Re: Public Forum Issue/Nitpick Message-ID: <1869@marlin.NOSC.MIL> List-Id: wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller) writes: > My proposal, and I dare say I have found this to > be a widely accepted approach, is lower case reserved words > and mixed case identifiers. Hear, hear. I have used PL/M (sort of like PL/1), C and Ada. The convention on those projects was the above convention. The only addition we made to that was in the C program, where we specified that the defined literals were all in upper case, to distinguish them from variables. Writing large amounts of code using all upper case for one group of words and lower case for another category also slows things down considerably for those of us that don't have intelligent text editors which know the language we are writing in (and which know the conventions we are following). It's a lot easier, more intuitive and MUCH more readable to use the First_Letter_Caps convention.