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Date: 6 Sep 91 18:06:19 GMT
From: agate!bionet!ucselx!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!tulane!uno.edu!JNCS
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Subject: Re: Ada micro Style for Programs in Introductory Textbooks
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In article <1991Sep5.190551.8272@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, pattis@june.cs.wash
ington.edu (Richard Pattis) writes:
>
>  I recently received some reviews for a CS 1 (Introduction to Programming) in
>Ada textbook. I was criticized (to varying degrees) for not typesetting my Ada
>code according to the standard established in the LRM.  I would like to appeal

In general I would suggest that any book teaching a programming language should
try to follow the commonly (!?!?!?) used style guidelines. In the case for Ada,
the guidelines (which I know you are aware, but for completeness sake) are :
  1. reserved words in small case
  2. user defined identifiers in capital case

I do not like these style guidelines, but I follow them when necessary. 

With respect to your style guidelines I do like them with one exception; using
things like Pos for user defined  POS identifiers. Semantics embedded in case
is just to subtle for my stomach.

Jaime Nino
Computer Science
University of New Orleans