Re: About style

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Mar 4, 2:50 pm, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An quote from the JLint distribution, which is README says (JSlint is for  
> JavaScript, but the quote applies well to Ada I feel) :
>
> > The place to express yourself in programming is in the quality of your  
> > ideas,
> > and the efficiency of execution. The role of style is the same as in
> > literature. A great writer doesn't express himself by putting the spaces
> > before his commas instead of after, or by putting extra spaces inside his
> > parentheses. A great writer will slavishly conform to some rules of  
> > style,
> > and that in no way constrains his power to express himself creatively.
> > See for example William Strunk's The Elements of Style
> > [http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html].
>
> That said, I still know how it's difficult to try to define an Ada  
> Standard Style which would please everyone.

There may be a standard style that gets accepted.  But given how long
written English has been around and how long it took for the standards
to be developed, I wouldn't expect an Ada Standard Style to be
finalized for about 1,000 years.

                                         -- Adam