From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case
Date: 1997/04/04
Date: 1997-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.860206296@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5i1fgh$5us@saturn.brighton.ac.uk
Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
: Well I LIKE Mike Feldman's choice (upper keywords, lower identifiers - we used
: to call it "Upper Case Sropping" - remember?). It has the advantage that it
: easily converts to bold-case stropping for published material.
Really that misses the point. Different people will of course have different
tastes (I basically prefer the Ada 83 style of upper case identifiers,
because of the nice property that they are clear in comments).
But I regard my personal tastes, or Charles' personal tastes, or anyone
elses personal tastes as irrelevant. It is MUCH more important for the
community to agree on a common style.
P.S. Charles, Mike's choice is related to Algol-68 more than you think.
Pascal acquired upper the upper case keyword style directly from the
Algol-xx stropping tradition, and Mike follows the Pascal style in an
attempt to make his book more palatable to those professors and instructors
used to teaching Pascal :-)
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-26 0:00 IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Charles H. Sampson
1997-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jeff Burns
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-28 0:00 ` William Clodius
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Graham C. Hughes
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Charles Lindsey
1997-04-03 0:00 ` John English
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Doug Smith
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