From: Peter Ammon <peter_ammon@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:42:20 -0700
Date: 2003-10-03T15:42:20-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <blku0j$pos$1@news.apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F7C37C3.B5469C33@Sonnack.com>
Programmer Dude wrote:
> Peter Ammon wrote:
>
>
>>classmethod :
>>access_specifier method_type_specifier method_return_type_specifier
>>method_declaration method_body
>>
>>Can you quickly count which is the fourth?
>>Compare to
>>
>>classmethod :
>>accessSpecifier methodTypeSpecifier methodReturnTypeSpecifier
>>methodDeclaration methodBody
>
>
> Compare to
>
> classmethod :
> access_specifier
> method_type_specifier
> method_return_type_specifier
> method_declaration
> method_body
You've piqued my interest, since I'm the first to admit that my grammar
specifications are hard to read.
Where do you put the action in the above code?
classmethod :
access_specifier
method_type_specifier
method_return_type_specifier
method_declaration
method_body
{ doSomething(); }
What if there's more than one reduction possible?
classmethod :
access_specifier
method_type_specifier
method_return_type_specifier
method_declaration
method_body
{ doSomething(); }
| something_else
another_thing
even_more
blah_blah
{ doSomethingElse(); }
This looks like it's getting hard to read.
>
> Or my preference if the tool allows
>
> classmethod :
> access-specifier
> method-type-specifier
> method-return-type-specifier
> method-declaration
> method-body
>
> (In proportional fonts, hyphens are usually skinnier than
> underscores and (to my eye) make the text more readable.
> It's not as noticable with monospace fonts, but I think the
> lower example looks better (read: more readable :-).)
Agreed! I wish that more languages allowed hyphen use in identifiers.
Dylan is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
-Peter
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-26 4:32 ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ Andy Glew
2003-09-26 5:43 ` Attila Feher
2003-09-26 5:54 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-09-26 7:11 ` Matt Gregory
2003-09-26 17:12 ` Matt Gregory
2003-09-26 18:25 ` tmoran
2003-09-26 18:41 ` Michael Feathers
2003-09-26 13:43 ` Steve
2003-09-26 7:27 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-09-26 15:40 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-09-27 11:18 ` Mad Hamish
2003-09-28 9:26 ` Martin Dowie
2003-09-29 17:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-09-29 23:19 ` Mike Bandor
2003-10-03 11:53 ` Spell-checking source code (Was: ISO Studies of underscores...) Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-03 14:13 ` William
2003-10-03 14:20 ` William
2003-10-03 18:39 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-03 22:04 ` Kevin Morenski
2003-10-04 9:49 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-05 15:16 ` William
2003-10-06 12:58 ` Robert Stankowic
2003-10-03 19:48 ` Jim Rogers
2003-10-05 15:08 ` William
2003-10-04 3:07 ` Steve
2003-10-04 9:44 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-04 10:41 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-04 18:29 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2003-10-04 19:06 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-07 18:56 ` Spell-checking source code Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-12 8:07 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-14 13:41 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-14 15:30 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-14 15:50 ` Peter Bushell
2003-10-14 16:46 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-14 17:34 ` Alan Balmer
2003-10-15 5:34 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-15 15:02 ` Alan Balmer
2003-10-16 8:57 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-10-20 7:42 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
[not found] ` <h51pov4t28ujj3bqlareldhsiie0m4ljre@4ax.com>
2003-10-15 5:43 ` Jakob Bieling
2003-10-20 7:44 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-24 11:55 ` Stephen Baynes.
2003-10-07 18:47 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-10 11:52 ` ISO Studies of underscores vs MixedCase in Ada or C++ Stephen Baynes.
2003-10-13 9:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-09-26 16:22 ` Randy King
2003-09-26 16:51 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-09-26 18:02 ` Mike Smith
2003-09-26 19:05 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-09-26 19:56 ` Default User
2003-09-26 17:24 ` Jack Klein
2003-09-26 17:44 ` Programmer Dude
2003-09-27 11:44 ` Gerry Quinn
2003-09-26 19:57 ` Default User
2003-09-27 16:35 ` Richard Heathfield
2003-09-28 0:23 ` Ian Woods
2003-09-28 10:17 ` James Dow Allen
2003-10-04 8:45 ` Matt Gregory
2003-10-04 18:41 ` Default User
2003-10-04 22:13 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-10-20 7:40 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-10-21 1:08 ` Wes Groleau
2003-10-02 4:20 ` Peter Ammon
2003-10-02 14:35 ` Programmer Dude
2003-10-03 22:42 ` Peter Ammon [this message]
2003-10-04 0:10 ` Wes Groleau
2003-10-04 1:03 ` Peter Ammon
2003-10-04 8:48 ` Matt Gregory
2003-10-04 10:19 ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-04 12:13 ` Corey Murtagh
2003-10-04 13:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-10-04 22:15 ` John W. Krahn
2003-10-04 12:28 ` CBFalconer
2003-10-06 6:02 ` Dave Thompson
2003-10-08 16:22 ` Programmer Dude
2003-10-28 1:16 ` Gene Wirchenko
2003-10-28 3:01 ` Oplec
2003-10-28 3:29 ` Dave Vandervies
2003-10-08 15:07 ` Isaac Gouy
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2003-10-02 9:36 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-10-02 11:37 ` Peter Hermann
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