Re: Ada Operators in 9x

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In article <EACHUS.93Jun30180618@spectre.mitre.org>, eachus@spectre.mitre.org (
Robert I. Eachus) writes:
|> In article <1993Jun30.174116.24785@relay.nswc.navy.mil> bwallet@apssgi.nswc.
navy.mil (Brad Wallet) writes:
|> 
|>   > no, i think you all are missing point behind making Ada case sensitive.
|>   > since the original statement was that case sensitivity would allow for
|>   > more uniform coding standards enforcement by the language, i think the
|>   > implementation would be something like all reserved words must be
|>   > written in lower case and other stuff must be all caps.  that's part of
|>   > our coding standards.  this would make perfect sense...
|> 
|>   Gee, since you are too lazy (apparently) to build a tool to enforce
|> your coding standards on everyone in the project, you want to require
|> all Ada compilers to enforce them on everyone!  That DOES NOT make
|> perfect sense to me.
|> 
|>      A long time ago a group I was in built a (very nice) pretty
|> printer for Ada for the project we were doing.  After lots of rounds
|> of discussions directed at which format was best, we compromised on
|> everybodies favorites.  Emacs ada-mode was modified to run files
|> through the pretty printer using the individual preferences when
|> loading, compiling, or saving, and a print alias used a separate set
|> of preferences for printing source files.  (For example, I prefer two
|> or three space indentation on screens, five spaces on wide printouts.)
|> 
|>      This worked just fine.  The only refinement added later was to
|> have a set of "project" preferences for delivered code.
|> --
|> 
|> 					Robert I. Eachus

no, no, no...u just don't get it...we enforce our standards...hey,
i even follow them (occasionally).  and your group follows its
standards.  and his group follows its standards.  and everyone's
code looks different.  Ada was designed to encourage / force good
coding practice...well, it dropped the ball on case sensitivity.

brad