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: 2000-12-15 08:40:38 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Bad coding standards Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:34:52 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <91dh7c$44t$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.27.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Dec 15 16:34:52 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001207 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x67.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3172 Date: 2000-12-15T16:34:52+00:00 List-Id: In article , comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote: > A very simple solution to producing and using a name with a reasonable > length is to do all the renames at the beginning of the Ada source. > This produces a Table of Contents. In fact, if one uses any but the > most common abbreviations for any purpose, the also should be listed > together. One of the beauties of Ada is the source text can be > organized as a readable technical document. The problem with that approach is that often the old names *and* the new names will be used in the body of that package. That's just gawd-awful. This is particularly likely to happen if multiple people end up helping to author the source file. Each tends to have their own favorite way of naming things. As we are rather fond of pointing out to C coders, just because some feature *can* be used to make readable code doesn't mean it typically *will* be used that way. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/