From: Britt <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 14:03:42 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2013-01-06T14:03:42-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c597fd64-9e6e-4efc-86a8-839bbc5a513a@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84766e99-7ca5-47f6-ac86-8ac3f61e8d1e@googlegroups.com>
On Sunday, January 6, 2013 12:26:12 AM UTC-5, Rod Kay wrote:
> Title-case seems an improvement to me. Combined with the 'lower-verb' style, the example would become ...
>
> procedure put_AI_Header_and_Subject (Fyle : in Ada.Text_IO.File_Type;
>
> ... which looks more natural, to my eye at least.
After thinking about why your proposal looks bad to me I realized that I always regard the name of a subprogram as a singular proper noun (rather than a sentence in itself) because it is used in the source code as a proper name. E.g.
procedure Run_Very_Quickly (Direction : in Direction_Type) is ...
and, at the point of use:
Run_Very_Quickly (Direction => North_By_Northwest);
it is the _name_ of the procedure and should be capitalized as a name (proper noun).
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2013-01-04 4:27 On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Rod Kay
2013-01-04 4:32 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 1:30 ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-05 3:58 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 12:37 ` Simon Clubley
2013-01-06 5:29 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 5:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-06 5:26 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-06 22:03 ` Britt [this message]
2013-01-05 19:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-04 16:31 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-04 16:52 ` AdaMagica
2013-01-05 3:41 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-11 8:01 ` John English
2013-01-11 16:48 ` Martin
2013-01-11 19:26 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-05 3:33 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 4:19 ` Britt
2013-01-05 5:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 5:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-04 18:32 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-05 3:47 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 14:11 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-05 18:19 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-09 8:21 ` ada-mode create case exception Stephen Leake
2013-01-11 16:16 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-13 23:13 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-05 14:06 ` On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Stephen Leake
2013-01-06 5:37 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-11 16:47 ` Martin
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