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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577df5d4a0e88785 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-14 17:10:20 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news-x.support.nl!portc03.blue.aol.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.flash.net!news.flash.net!not-for-mail From: "Ken Garlington" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <91b9ma$bne$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Subject: Re: Bad coding standards X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:10:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.215.83.115 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 976842616 216.215.83.115 (Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:10:16 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:10:16 CST Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3152 Date: 2000-12-15T01:10:16+00:00 List-Id: "Robert Dewar" wrote in message news:91b9ma$bne$1@nnrp1.deja.com... : In article , : "Ken Garlington" : > wrote: : > Not "suddenly" - It was _always_ bad :). The Ada95 : > manual is slightly better : : The reason that the Ada95 RM changed from ALL UPPER : CASE to Mixed Case for identifiers, had nothing to : do with a judgment as to which was better (a case : can me made for either convention), but rather just : a reflection that in our experience the Mixed_Case : convention was the most common one, so we might as : well adopt as familiar as possible a syle of writing : the examples. Of course, adopting a "familiar" style of writing could, in fact, be a case for claiming an improvement!