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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,259541b8a8a12b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-29 04:19:11 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant Message-ID: References: <3A429639.53D3EA9E@acm.org> <92fobl$f93$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A4B9FB8.AFD69726@acm.org> Organization: LJK Software Date: 29 Dec 2000 07:19:08 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 978092350 216.44.122.34 (Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:19:10 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:19:10 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3449 Date: 2000-12-29T07:19:08-05:00 List-Id: In article <3A4B9FB8.AFD69726@acm.org>, Marin David Condic writes: > The method you propose would work, provided that all programmers on a > project correctly capitalized (according to project norms) their first use > of an identifier or, as you say, create a single file that contains the > most common acronyms, etc. It doesn't work the instant someone violates the > conventions on a first occurence. No, that is the point at which it _does_ work, by making it obvious at _all_ instances (to a caring human) that a correction is needed.