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: 103376,768ec7d79291ed2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Date: 1997/04/03 Message-ID: <5i1fgh$5us@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 230566837 References: <1997Mar26.185431.12742@nosc.mil> <5hfd5b$4ro$1@news.pacifier.com> Organization: University of Brighton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 | ---------------------------------------------------------------