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From: Ed Falis <falis@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Bad coding standards
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:45:13 GMT
Date: 2000-12-15T04:45:13+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PM00037871E60C0573@Dogen.ne.mediaone.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p4g_5.149068$U46.4846159@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com


> This is the most common reaction we receive when someone new enters
> our
> software group where we have standards that require a 3 character
> mnemonic
> as a part of all identifiers that are defined in package specs.
> Usually
> within a week of using this convention, they don't know how they ever
> worked
> without it.

I've been running into it for years in customers' code, and still think
it's pretty bogus, given that most Ada development environments have
supported interactive cross-referencing for years.  It just adds noise,
but not as much as what Dewar pointed out with the fully-qualified
names.

- Ed



  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-15  4:45 UTC|newest]

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2000-12-11 19:34     ` constant string array Robert Dewar
2000-12-11 21:41 ` Pascal Obry
2000-12-12  2:54   ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-12  2:56   ` Robert Dewar
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2000-12-11 19:39       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-12  2:31     ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-12  2:53       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-12  4:39         ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-12  4:56     ` Jeff Carter
2000-12-12 20:57       ` Beard, Frank
2000-12-12 23:05         ` Jeff Carter
2000-12-13  0:37           ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  0:36         ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  0:39         ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  2:02           ` Beard, Frank
2000-12-13  2:33             ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-13  2:55               ` Beard, Frank
2000-12-13  4:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-13 13:38                   ` Bad coding standards Marc A. Criley
2000-12-13 13:54                     ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-13 20:55                     ` David Emery
2000-12-14 13:07                       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-14 14:21                         ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-15  0:08                           ` Wayne Magor
2000-12-15  1:40                             ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-15  3:18                         ` DuckE
2000-12-15  4:45                           ` Ed Falis [this message]
2000-12-15 15:44                           ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-15 16:34                             ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-16  6:08                               ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-16  1:16                             ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-16  1:19                             ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-17  5:49                               ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-17  8:24                                 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-15 15:56                       ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-12-15 20:43                         ` Wayne Lydecker
2000-12-16  4:31                           ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-16 11:36                           ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-15 21:36                         ` tmoran
2000-12-15 18:41 ` constant string array Freelancer
2000-12-13 22:23 Bad coding standards Beard, Frank
2000-12-13 23:56 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-14  0:37   ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-14  4:08 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-14 14:06   ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-14 20:15     ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-15  5:55 ` Keith 
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-14  2:32 Beard, Frank
2000-12-14 12:19 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-14 14:03 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-14 20:14   ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-15  1:10     ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-18 16:09     ` Tucker Taft
2000-12-18 18:59       ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-18 22:20         ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-12-19 15:51           ` Tucker Taft
2000-12-19 16:12             ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-19 16:01           ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-19 15:49         ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-19 16:36           ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-20  1:52             ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-20 12:58               ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-20 14:27                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-21 23:19                   ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-03 19:49                     ` Wes Groleau
2001-01-06 19:45                       ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-12-20 11:56             ` Mario Amado Alves
2000-12-19 18:05           ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-12-19 15:42       ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-15  0:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-12-15  5:00 Beard, Frank
2000-12-15 14:14 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-16  1:28 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-18 20:00 ` Robert L. Spooner
2000-12-19 17:46 Beard, Frank
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