Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ?

[Britt <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>]

On Friday, January 4, 2013 10:33:02 PM UTC-5, Rod Kay wrote:
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> > >    The idea is to only capitalize the noun parts of the procedure name. It's a minor thing I guess, yet I find code a little easier to read when used.
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> > That would make sense if German is your first language, I suppose.  To me, whose main language is (American) English, it just looks a little weird, aesthetically.  But I don't find it either easier or more difficult to read either way.
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>    English is my 1st language, also :). 
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>    It occurred to me that verbs are never capitalized in English (except as the leading word in a sentence, of course). Proper nouns (and at one time normal nouns) are capitalized. I guess I find it slightly easier to read as it resembles normal English sentences a little more.

I agree with Bob Duff's reply. I think anything starting with lowercase (other than keywords) looks weird and would distract me.  The common Ada convention is to capitalize first letters and each letter immediately following an underscore.  I also prefer to capitalize the first letter of attributes as in 'Pos. Acronyms should be all caps.

Your proposal would be awkward for most pretty printers like to handle but I think gnatpp could support it using its default "as declared" casing mode. Gnatpp also supports casing exception dictionaries.