From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
Subject: Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 15:03:35 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-05-23T15:03:35-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45a79c44-754f-447f-91d1-b69778dbeaa1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c50cd647-e696-4add-8c72-7fe94e2457a7@googlegroups.com>
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 1:46:18 PM UTC+1, AdaMagica wrote:
> Am Montag, 23. Mai 2016 13:40:59 UTC+2 schrieb Martin:
> > On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 1:33:04 AM UTC+1, brbar...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > [snip]However, if you look back, Ada95 authors often used upper case for key words in Ada (like IF, ELSE, and so on).[snip]
> >
> > Which was the recommended style for Ada83.
> >
> > -- Martin
>
> No, the ARM used all upper case for identifiers, all lower case for reserved words (an the latter hasn't changed).
You're right...I have distinct memories of 'IF' and 'ELSE' etc but that must have been local (and rather horrible) coding standards.
> But I find the whole discussion quite unnecessary and not very constructive. Of course you can make style proposals (in a polite manner), but it's the author's choice to follow them or not. And of course it's a good choice to follow the common style used in a given language.
Indeed, but the original API didn't follow the common style, that was my point. And it's very easy to configure GNAT to check your coding style.
-- Martin
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2016-05-13 20:37 ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada jrmarino
2016-05-13 21:44 ` Per Sandberg
2016-05-13 23:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-14 6:59 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-05-16 20:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-17 7:35 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-05-17 9:38 ` G.B.
2016-05-17 23:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-29 3:45 ` David Botton
2016-05-14 6:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-14 10:41 ` jrmarino
2016-05-14 11:31 ` Björn Lundin
2016-05-14 17:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-14 12:22 ` AdaMagica
2016-05-14 13:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-05-14 13:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-15 13:59 ` Shark8
2016-05-15 17:03 ` Björn Lundin
2016-05-19 15:50 ` Shark8
2016-05-15 14:23 ` AdaMagica
2016-05-15 19:38 ` jrmarino
2016-05-16 19:45 ` Olivier Henley
2016-05-18 17:13 ` Anh Vo
2016-05-19 8:16 ` jrmarino
2016-05-20 15:18 ` Martin
2016-05-20 17:44 ` jrmarino
2016-05-20 20:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-20 23:44 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 1:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-21 7:01 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 10:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-05-21 17:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-21 18:14 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 5:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-05-21 6:43 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 11:09 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-05-21 16:54 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 18:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-21 18:44 ` jrmarino
2016-05-22 21:35 ` Martin
2016-05-23 0:33 ` brbarkstrom
2016-05-23 11:40 ` Martin
2016-05-23 12:46 ` AdaMagica
2016-05-23 22:03 ` Martin [this message]
2016-05-24 7:28 ` jrmarino
2016-05-24 9:09 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-05-24 15:27 ` Simon Wright
2016-05-23 20:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-22 15:06 ` brbarkstrom
2016-05-24 10:16 ` Graham Stark
2016-05-26 22:59 ` jrmarino
2016-05-30 9:19 ` karsar
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