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: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book Date: 1996/11/08 Message-ID: <32833E20.1640@gsfc.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 195355013 references: <55kmtp$3s3@top.mitre.org> <1996Nov4.083416.1@eisner> <1996Nov6.232009.7727@ole.cdac.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) Date: 1996-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: James Thiele wrote: > > In article <1996Nov4.083416.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > >In article <55kmtp$3s3@top.mitre.org>, mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes: > >> > With Ada 95, we have something approaching a real consensus on style (use > >> > lower case for keywords and Capitalized_Identifiers_With_Underscores). I > >> > think this consensus is valuable for the community, > >> > >> I was not asked what my opinion was before forming this imaginary > [snip] > > > >Although adding underscores is problematic, it seems to me that > >for programs on a computer letting each reader view them with > >their preferred capitalization should be a trivial extension > >to an editor which already does syntax coloring. > > And when you print the program, do you use ink and paper which lets > each reader view it with their preferred capitalization? Maybe I'm in a small minority, but since I'm blessed with a big screen, it has literally been years since I've printed out code! So I don't give much weight to "what will this look like when printed". > -- > James Thiele > james@cdac.com (work) or jet@eskimo.com (home) > http://www.eskimo.com/~jet -- - Stephe