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