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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd4fc3d2b22df500 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.66.88.129 with SMTP id bg1mr9444755pab.46.1357317069727; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:31:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.13.130 with SMTP id h2mr15452005igc.16.1357317069678; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:31:09 -0800 (PST) Path: s9ni79141pbb.0!nntp.google.com!b8no2986009pbd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:31:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:31:09 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2013-01-04T08:31:09-08:00 List-Id: On Thursday, January 3, 2013 8:27:42 PM UTC-8, Rod Kay wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been trialling this style and come to like it. An example would be ... > declare > package Integer_Vectors is new Ada.Containers.Vectors (Positive, Integer); > > Integers : Integer_Vectors.Vector; > begin > Integers.reserve_Capacity; > Integers.clear; > end; > > The idea is to only capitalise 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. 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. Just my 2 Pfennig, -- Adam