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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577df5d4a0e88785 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-14 12:20:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!xfer10.netnews.com!netnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bad coding standards Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:14:08 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <91b9ma$bne$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.41 X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Dec 14 20:14:08 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x53.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.41 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3144 Date: 2000-12-14T20:14:08+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Ken Garlington" > wrote: > Not "suddenly" - It was _always_ bad :). The Ada95 > manual is slightly better The reason that the Ada95 RM changed from ALL UPPER CASE to Mixed Case for identifiers, had nothing to do with a judgment as to which was better (a case can me made for either convention), but rather just a reflection that in our experience the Mixed_Case convention was the most common one, so we might as well adopt as familiar as possible a syle of writing the examples. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/