Re: ada writing guide

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <8d82lq$4fp$1@hobbes2.crc.com>,
  "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
>
> <tmoran@bix.com> wrote in message
> news:%wJJ4.740$%Y3.249597@news.pacbell.net...
> > >understanding that ADA does not have strict code writing standard
such as
> > >the ANSI C standard. nobody has mentioned any standard for ADA code
> writing.
> >   Do you mean preferred style, or language definition?  The answers
> > people have posted to your question have assumed you meant style,
but
> > of course there is no strict style standard for C (if you know of
one,
> > please tell us), so perhaps you meant language definition.  If so,
> > what you want is the Ada Language Reference Manual (LRM).  Look for
a
> > link to it at www.adapower.com
>
> Have you ever looked at
> http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/GNU/standards_toc.html
>
> This provides a coding stabndard for C, which could be considered
"strict."
>
>

Perhaps. But I'm hard-pressed to come up with any C program I've ever
looked at that conforms to the following statement:

Please use underscores to separate words in a name, so that the Emacs
word commands can be useful within them. Stick to
lower case; reserve upper case for macros and enum constants, and for
name-prefixes that follow a uniform convention.

This is completely antithetical to the "hungarian" notation that I find
most commonly. The style used for old K&R C source ususally avoids
underscores as well.
--
T.E.D.

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