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: 230825773 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: 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!