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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John English Subject: Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) Date: 2000/10/11 Message-ID: <39E436F8.A11E1842@bton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680102478 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 971257615 12886 193.62.183.204 (11 Oct 2000 09:46:55 GMT) Organization: University of Brighton Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Oct 2000 09:46:55 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-11T09:46:55+00:00 List-Id: Frank Christiny wrote: > Not being a partisan of case-sensitivity I can nevertheless > assert that, first of all, Humans DO care for case sensitivity, > otherwise why have case-sensitivity in the grammar to begin with? > Consider the following "overloaded" sentences: > > In the Company of my friend. In the company of my friend. > Ada presentation today. ADA presentation today. > Standing by the Bank. Standing by the bank. I fail to see your point -- these would all be resolved by context, surely? > [...snip...] > > 2. Case sensitivity standardizes the coding practice of the > internals. Some Ada samples of the different practices I have > been able to observe just two months into my introduction to the > language: > > WITH Ada.Text_IO with Ada.Text_IO > PROCEDURE Some_Procedure procedure Some_Procedure > my_int : INTEGER; My_Int : integer; > BEGIN begin > NULL: null; > END Some_Procedure; end Some_Procedure; > > With Ada.Text_IO > procedure Some_Procedure > my_int : INTEGER; > begin > NULL; > end Some_Procedure; > > The first two versions are at least self-consistent. The > galling part is that the code I have to actually maintain at work > is the of the latter flavor! Maybe because it was the result of > many tinkerers prior to me. So, what do I do in this case? Run a prettyprinter over the code. That's what tools are for. > Follow the manglers or establish my own personal touch, just to > be contrary, ah? The language manual and rationale do not have > any suggestions on this regard, as far as I know. The LRM uses lowercase for reserved words and Capitalised_Names for identifiers throughout, and the style guide makes this an explicit recommendation. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------