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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,808505c9db7d5613 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Norman H. Cohen" Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book Date: 1996/11/04 Message-ID: <327E3E4D.5107@watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194373891 references: <32723F6A.54A3@dtek.chalmers.se> <32750568.123@essi.fr> <01bbc5d8$a3b24e00$6a9148a6@cornerstone.mydomain.org> <55955a$n04@felix.seas.gwu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ncohen@watson.ibm.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > In the case of Ada, the original RM encouraged an ALL_CAPS style for > identifiers that many adopted, but many found intolerable because they > FELT IT WAS LIKE SHOUTING! More important to me than any sense of being shouted at was the fact that confining yourself to one case, when the language rules allow either upper or lower case, is throwing away an opportunity for expressiveness. Why write CHANNELS_ALLOCATED_TO_CBS and make your reader wonder whether you meant Channels_Allocated_To_CBS or Channels_Allocated_To_CBs? (For those outside the US, CBS is a television network and CBs are Citizens Band radios.) -- Norman H. Cohen mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen