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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577df5d4a0e88785 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-18 08:09:41 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!inmet!not-for-mail From: Tucker Taft Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bad coding standards Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:09:40 -0500 Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Message-ID: <3A3E36C4.3466A19C@averstar.com> References: <91b9ma$bne$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nebula.burl.averstar.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: inmet2.burl.averstar.com 977155780 5648 141.199.8.77 (18 Dec 2000 16:09:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@inmet2.burl.averstar.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2000 16:09:40 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3225 Date: 2000-12-18T16:09:40+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Commercial Division, AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) (http://www.averstar.com/services/IT_consulting.html) Burlington, MA USA