From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Subject: Re: non key-words in xemacs to be upper case
Date: 1996/08/29
Date: 1996-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Dww5L9.1G7@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.840990407@schonberg
In <dewar.840990407@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>This is a reaction to a strong reaction from Mike Feldman, who likes to
>teach Ada using ALL UPPER CASE KEYWORDS, and that is the way his book is
>written, but I strongly disagree with this, and it is interesting to note
>that not ONE of my students chose to follow this style (I let them choose
>their own style, as long as they are consistent).
FWIW, I follow the Mike Feldman approach. Perhaps its my ALGOL 68 upbringing
:-). What I certainly do NOT like is the opposite convention of using
lower-case reserved words, as was done in the LRM.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-16 0:00 non key-words in xemacs to be upper case Frank.Bade
1996-08-16 0:00 ` David L Brown
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Charles Lindsey [this message]
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-08-17 0:00 ` j. doe
1996-08-19 0:00 ` David Wheeler
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