Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <92i5hu$ktl9@news.kvaerner.com>,
  "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:
> Failing that the ada vendors could agree on a convention for
> special comments to be used for pretty printing directives.

I assume everyone in this thread is familiar with the GNAT
convention (implemented by the -gnatyk switch) is that all
uses of an identifier must match the casing of the declaration.

(I think declaration is a better criterion than first use,
and they are not quite equivalent when you have multiple
units).

Also we have seen cases where two identifiers have the same
characters but different casing, e.g.

   Unval
   UNval

where perhaps the Un in the first one is Un as in Untie,
and the UN in the second is UN as in United Nations.

In GNAT, each reference will be forced to be cased
appropriately (and of course you really need a compiler
with full visibility analysis to do this right).


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