From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case
Date: 1997/04/03
Date: 1997-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5i1fgh$5us@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E7yI2I.M8M@clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
: Well I LIKE Mike Feldman's choice (upper keywords, lower identifiers - we used
: to call it "Upper Case Sropping" - remember?). It has the advantage that it
: easily converts to bold-case stropping for published material.
Yes, I remember it well -- unfortunately for the unfortunates who only had
upper-case-only teletypes to run Algol 68-R on, this translated into "upper
case means lower case, upper case with quotes around means *real* upper case".
(BTW, many thanks for the Informal Introduction... the impact in 1971 for
someone who hadn't noticed a successor to Algol 60 and BNF was mind-blowing;
it was a real turning point for me.)
: What I think what all are agreed on is that the original choice in the LRM
: (lower (or bold) keywords, upper identifiers) was the worst possible
: convention.
Amen.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-26 0:00 IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Charles H. Sampson
1997-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jeff Burns
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-28 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Graham C. Hughes
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Charles Lindsey
1997-04-03 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Doug Smith
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