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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,808505c9db7d5613 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: Looking for good Ada95 book Date: 1996/11/20 Message-ID: <56uqhq$5tf@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197644681 references: <32723F6A.54A3@dtek.chalmers.se> <56b275$6k4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> organization: University of Brighton newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Pattis (pattis@cs.washington.edu) wrote: : Since this discussion is still ongoing (and civil), I'd like to support Mike's : position on capitalized reserved words with the following observations, as : a long time CS1 instructor. I'll try to be short and non-redundant; but I : have read only most, not all the messages on this topic. : [...snip...] OK, here's another contrary view to keep the pot boiling. If you use all-caps, procedure HELLO_WORLD might be mistyped near-invisibly as procedure HELL0_W0RLD which would give rise to some very puzzling (to a beginner) errors. However, procedure Hello_World and procedure Hell0_W0rld are visibly distinct... (Oh well, I suppose I ought to make the counter-argument for fairness' sake: procedure HELLO is easy to distinguish from procedure HE110... :-) --------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | fax: (+44) 1273 642405 University of Brighton | ---------------------------------------------------------------