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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ?
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:18:51 -0600
Date: 2013-01-04T23:18:51-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kc8d43$g48$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 715b71c7-e606-4597-a29b-0e0fef58b4d1@googlegroups.com

"Rod Kay" <rodakay@internode.on.net> wrote in message 
news:715b71c7-e606-4597-a29b-0e0fef58b4d1@googlegroups.com...
> It occurred to me that verbs are never capitalised in English (except as 
> the leading word
> in a sentence, of course). Proper nouns (and at one time normal nouns) are 
> capitalised.
> I guess I find it slightly easier to read as it resembles normal English 
> sentences a little more.

This would make sense to me, but only if you capitalized the first letter of 
every Identifier. This to me is like starting a sentence or title (RRS 
thinks of identifiers as titles), and the first letter is always 
capitalized. Thus,
     Is_Valid and Window_is_Valid
Certainly, I'd never think that something like
     reserve_Capacity
is correct. But I could see a style where a verb in the middle was in lower 
case.

                                Randy.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-05  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-04  4:27 On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Rod Kay
2013-01-04  4:32 ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05  1:30   ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-05  3:58     ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 12:37       ` Simon Clubley
2013-01-06  5:29         ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05  5:13     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-06  5:26       ` Rod Kay
2013-01-06 22:03         ` Britt
2013-01-05 19:17     ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-04 16:31 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-04 16:52   ` AdaMagica
2013-01-05  3:41     ` Rod Kay
2013-01-11  8:01       ` John English
2013-01-11 16:48         ` Martin
2013-01-11 19:26           ` Simon Wright
2013-01-05  3:33   ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05  4:19     ` Britt
2013-01-05  5:24       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05  5:18     ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2013-01-04 18:32 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-05  3:47   ` Rod Kay
2013-01-05 14:11   ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-05 18:19     ` Simon Wright
2013-01-09  8:21       ` ada-mode create case exception Stephen Leake
2013-01-11 16:16         ` Simon Wright
2013-01-13 23:13           ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-05 14:06 ` On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Stephen Leake
2013-01-06  5:37   ` Rod Kay
2013-01-11 16:47 ` Martin
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