Re: a question of form

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Simon Clubley writes on comp.lang.ada:
> On 2014-08-25, gdotone@gmail.com wrote:
>> reading Ada 95 second edition, by feldman and koffman, the authors
>> suggest that all reserve words be in caps and identifiers start with a
>> capital letter, etc...
>>
>> the authors do note that Ada is not case sensitive.
>>
>> what is the general place in the real world of program form today?
>>
>
> Upper case keywords are as ugly in Ada as they are in Oberon (it's one
> of the things about Oberon I don't like.)
>
> Lower case keywords for me and This_Is_An_Identifier or
> this_is_an_identifier type identifiers but _never_ ThisIsAnIdentifier.
> I regard the latter as not as easy to read as using underscores.

The Ada 95 Quality and Style Guide establishes the closest thing to a
standard as far as source text formatting goes.  I just noticed a new
and updated version on Wikibooks:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Style_Guide

Thanks to the authors of this Wikibook!

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.