From: Rod Kay <rodakay@internode.on.net>
Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ?
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 21:37:33 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2013-01-05T21:37:33-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42913791-5b75-4b4d-a6ba-760a45d49a27@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8538yfg1vs.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
On Sunday, 6 January 2013 01:06:47 UTC+11, Stephen Leake wrote:
>
> If you can teach Emacs and/or GPS to do this automatically, it might be
> useful. (It would be a big job; you'd need a good dictionary or
> something similar).
>
> Otherwise, it's a non-starter; it's too small an issue to spend
> time/brain power on.
>
Yes, I doubt if automating the style would be worth the effort (other than using the casing exception methods already mentioned). There is also the problem of distinguishing between words which can be either a verb or a noun (ie 'set').
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2013-01-04 4:27 On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Rod Kay
2013-01-04 4:32 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 1:30 ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-05 3:58 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 12:37 ` Simon Clubley
2013-01-06 5:29 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 5:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-06 5:26 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-06 22:03 ` Britt
2013-01-05 19:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-04 16:31 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-04 16:52 ` AdaMagica
2013-01-05 3:41 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-11 8:01 ` John English
2013-01-11 16:48 ` Martin
2013-01-11 19:26 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-05 3:33 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 4:19 ` Britt
2013-01-05 5:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 5:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-04 18:32 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-05 3:47 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 14:11 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-05 18:19 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-09 8:21 ` ada-mode create case exception Stephen Leake
2013-01-11 16:16 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-13 23:13 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-05 14:06 ` On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Stephen Leake
2013-01-06 5:37 ` Rod Kay [this message]
2013-01-11 16:47 ` Martin
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