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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,93cb102974dc309 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Naming conventions : where does the capital letter come frome ? Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <40018f14-ff25-4701-8b5b-52c512e5fc99@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.198.58.220 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222519401 1114 127.0.0.1 (27 Sep 2008 12:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=77.198.58.220; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2104 Date: 2008-09-27T05:43:21-07:00 List-Id: On 27 sep, 08:03, "Randy Brukardt" wrote: > Just speculating, but I think the names of entities are (logically) prope= r > names. And you write proper names with a capital letter. After all, I wri= te > my name Randy Brukardt, not randy brukardt. The underscore just replaces = the > space, it doesn't change the way you'd capitalize the name. > > So, similarly, I'd write > > =A0 =A0 package Claw is > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 type Root_Window_Type is ... > > not > > =A0 =A0package claw is > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0type root_window_type is ... > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0Randy. I like this reply very much ... It's a lovely view and feel