Re: Bad coding standards

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> ...
> The reason that the Ada95 RM changed from ALL UPPER
> CASE to Mixed Case for identifiers, had nothing to
> do with a judgment as to which was better (a case
> can me made for either convention), but rather just
> a reflection that in our experience the Mixed_Case
> convention was the most common one, so we might as
> well adopt as familiar as possible a syle of writing
> the examples.

Well, as usual, we each have our own interpretation of history.
For what it is worth, my memory is that the Ada 9X design team really 
hated the ALL CAPS convention of Ada 83.  Perhaps Robert is giving
the reason why the proposed change was accepted by the
reviewers, rather than the reason why the change was
proposed in the first place.

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