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From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case
Date: 1997/04/01
Date: 1997-04-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E7yI2I.M8M@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.859783266@merv


In <dewar.859783266@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>I agree we are getting there, but there are irritating holdouts (that's
>why I dislike Mike Feldman's choice, it teaches a whole generation of
>Ada programmers to get used to a "non-standard" style). Still, I agree
>that things are converging -- the sooner the better.

Well I LIKE Mike Feldman's choice (upper keywords, lower identifiers - we used
to call it "Upper Case Sropping" - remember?). It has the advantage that it
easily converts to bold-case stropping for published material.

What I think what all are agreed on is that the original choice in the LRM
(lower (or bold) keywords, upper identifiers) was the worst possible
convention.

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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-26  0:00 IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Charles H. Sampson
1997-03-26  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-27  0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-27  0:00 ` Jeff Burns
1997-03-27  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Jerry Petrey
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1997-03-28  0:00       ` William Clodius
1997-03-29  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09  0:00   ` Graham C. Hughes
1997-03-27  0:00 ` Bob Collins
1997-03-28  0:00   ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29  0:00       ` Doug Smith
1997-03-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-30  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01  0:00           ` Charles Lindsey [this message]
1997-04-03  0:00             ` John English
1997-04-04  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
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