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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: About style
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:40:48 -0600
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"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
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On Mar 4, 2:50 pm, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
...
>> That said, I still know how it's difficult to try to define an Ada
>> Standard Style which would please everyone.
>
>There may be a standard style that gets accepted.  But given how long
>written English has been around and how long it took for the standards
>to be developed, I wouldn't expect an Ada Standard Style to be
>finalized for about 1,000 years.

That depends on how much you are including in your style. Although it isn't 
that well known, the Ada standard recommends a style for layout of syntax 
and capitalization of identifiers. (The style that the syntax productions 
are shown in is intended to be the suggested layout of the syntax -- it's 
not as random as it seems!) So in one sense there literally already is a 
Standard Ada style.

Of course, most people tend to go much further than that in defining style 
rules. That surely isn't going to be agreed on until there is only one Ada 
programmer left -- and perhaps not even then...

                                       Randy.