Re: Some questions about Ada.

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Norman said

"I presume you're talking about consistency among different occurrences of
the same identifier rather than mechanical adherence to a uniform set of
capitalization rules.  I also hope that you're talking only about
consistency among user-written occurrences, and not enforced conformance
to the capitalization that the compiler vendor used in the declaration of
predefined packages.

I certainly don't want to be forced to write Text_Io and Cpu_Cycles
instead of Text_IO and CPU_Cycles--or C.Interfaces.Int instead of
C.Interfaces.int!"

Robert replies

In fact the -gnatg switch just enforces consistency, but that does include
conformance to the capitalization that the compiler vendor (us) used int
the declaration of predefined pcakages (since we is us, we quite like this
particular choice).

Of course in GNAT, it is Text_IO and C.Interfaces.int in the library :-)
These are incidentally the capitalizations that appear in the Ada 95 RM.
We exactly follow the RM casing conventions for all such entities.