Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case

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

i<<: What I think what all are agreed on is that the original choice in the LRM
: (lower (or bold) keywords, upper identifiers) was the worst possible
: convention.>>

Nope, all are not agreed on this, it is still my preferred style from an
objective point of view (I know from experience that I can read this style
as well as mixed case, just a matter of getting used to it).

I would have been perfectly happy of the Ada community had generally agreed
to follow the Ada 83 RM recommendiation, but clearly this convention had
enough people reacting as above so that it did not stick.

As I have mentioned before, my perception now is that the GREAT majority of
Ada programmers and Ada programming guidelines prefer mixed case, and I
really think it desirable that this become the essentially dominant style.

I find it a sign of weakness in the Ada community that there are such
scattered opinions on this subject that AQ&S felt compelled not to make
a specific recommendation -- too bad!