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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Naming conventions : where does the capital letter come frome ?
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:03:02 -0500
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"Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
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> Hello and Bonsoir,
>
> I was wondering why the most used Ada naming convention use capital
> letters with underscores.... further more, why capital letters while
> there are underscores to help to discern identifier parts ?

Just speculating, but I think the names of entities are (logically) proper 
names. And you write proper names with a capital letter. After all, I write 
my name Randy Brukardt, not randy brukardt. The underscore just replaces the 
space, it doesn't change the way you'd capitalize the name.

So, similarly, I'd write

    package Claw is
        type Root_Window_Type is ...

not

   package claw is
       type root_window_type is ...


                                       Randy.