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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,768ec7d79291ed2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Date: 1997/04/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 230825760 References: <1997Mar26.185431.12742@nosc.mil> <5hfd5b$4ro$1@news.pacifier.com> <5i1fgh$5us@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 :-)