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: dsmith@clark.net (Doug Smith) Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Date: 1997/03/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229255596 References: <1997Mar26.185431.12742@nosc.mil> <5hfd5b$4ro$1@news.pacifier.com> Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: [snip] > Note that GNAT does not discriminate, its error circuits work better 9if > you use a consistent style -- any of the style commonly used, including > Steve's are fine, but it learns your style from the program, and uses > this style for both error messages and error recovery (notice the > upper case ELSE in the error message). Very nice! I had not noticed what GNAT was doing; since my style was consistent, GNAT seemed to be using the same style..and I thought is was because we agreed on what the best style was (how arrogant of me). Now, with most LSE's handling additional formatting such as bold, italics, font size, color, etc., what would be a good layout? I've read the three Tufte books, and suspect there is a superior presentation style that would convey the most information, efficiently. Earlier messages mentioned color, and Tufte recommends earth tones (don't worry, that includes an amazing variety). [see www.amazon.com and search on author] He also tells us to use the "smallest effective difference"; For example, if you wish to distinguish between variables defined locally in a procedure, and variables defined in the package body within which the procedure is defined, use just enough difference (say, in shade of blue) to always tell which kind of variable it is. That way, differences between variabls and procedures can use a more significant difference, such as blue vs brown. Also, as we begin integrating graphic presentations with the code: there are other design principles we will want to address. I doubt the capitalization style will make the readability issue for anyone's code, although it may break it. Doug