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-Thread: 103376,fd4fc3d2b22df500 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.68.253.99 with SMTP id zz3mr426203pbc.4.1357450654233; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:37:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.154.132 with SMTP id vo4mr744186igb.7.1357450654175; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:37:34 -0800 (PST) Path: s9ni79141pbb.0!nntp.google.com!b8no12924636pbd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 21:37:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8538yfg1vs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.101.201.124; posting-account=pBdvJAoAAAAbTiQ-L1tpxD99i_UttsrJ NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.101.201.124 References: <8538yfg1vs.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <42913791-5b75-4b4d-a6ba-760a45d49a27@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? From: Rod Kay Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:37:34 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2013-01-05T21:37:33-08:00 List-Id: 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').