Re: non key-words in xemacs to be upper case

[wheeler@aphrodite.csed.ida.org (David Wheeler)]

Frank.Bade (bade@vicos_2.news) wrote:
: Help !

: I am an ADA programmer and using xemacs 19.13. The ADA-Mode of the
: Xemacs formats the non key-words to the first character upper case and
: the rest lower case.
: Our S/W development bible tolds us to write those
: words completely upper case. Who can help me ?

That's a pretty old convention, rarely used nowadays.
I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of your "bible" is archaic, too.

Most Ada users nowadays use the "Ada Quality and Style Guide" (AQ&S)
as their basic style guide.  It has lots of good information and only
a small part of it discusses case and indenting issues
(which really aren't all THAT important anyway).

For more information on AQ&S, see
  http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Resources/References/html#style

The AQ&S recommends lower case keywords, mixed case identifiers.
Even the older Ada 83 version 2.01.01 recommends that (paragraph 3.1.3),
and the Ada 95 version continues to recommend it.


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