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
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2000-12-11 19:34 ` constant string array Robert Dewar
2000-12-11 21:41 ` Pascal Obry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2000-12-20 1:52 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-20 12:58 ` Marin David Condic
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2000-12-21 23:19 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-03 19:49 ` Wes Groleau
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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
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