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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,768ec7d79291ed2c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: sampson@cod.nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson) Subject: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Date: 1997/03/26 Message-ID: <1997Mar26.185431.12742@nosc.mil>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 228549861 Sender: news@nosc.mil Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Please don't let this be the start of another flame war. I really need a piece of factual information, rather than opinions. I've got plenty of opinions myself. I've heard it said that of all the possible case conventions that could be used in programming, the worst possible one is to require iden- tifiers to be all upper case. (This is one of those opinions that I agree with.) Often when I've heard this, there has been either an ac- company statement or an implication that studies have been done showing that this convention reduces comprehension, compared to the all-lower- case or the initial-caps ones. Can anyone point me toward any such study? I doesn't even have to be on the Internet. A reasonably acces- sible journal would be fine. I poked around in the FAQ and didn't find anything, which is sur- prising given the bandwidth that has been spent on the subject of case. Charlie