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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of
 verbs in a procedure name ?
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Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:11:17 -0500
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> Rod Kay <rodakay@internode.on.net> writes:
>
>>    declare
>>       package Integer_Vectors is new Ada.Containers.Vectors (Positive, Integer);
>>       
>>       Integers : Integer_Vectors.Vector;
>>    begin
>>       Integers.reserve_Capacity;
>>       Integers.clear;
>>    end;
>>
>>
>> The idea is to only capitalise the noun parts of the procedure
>> name. It's a minor thing I guess, yet I find code a little easier to
>> read when used.
>
> I like my IDE (Emacs) to capitalise for me, and this would need so many
> case exceptions that it'd become impractical.

Unless you add a dictionary of verbs/nouns. Maybe automated lookup into
the on-line OED - do they have an API? A lot of work for very little
gain! But it would be cool if it worked :)

Which reminds me; we need a simpler keybinding for "make this word a
case exception".

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-- Stephe