Re: Record initialisation question

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 4:38:24 AM UTC-7, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Shark8 writes: 
>> 
>> >> I'll try it but I've just faced another problem where a component of 
>> >> another record is the address of the record itself. 
>> > 
>> > Type Example; 
>> > Function To_Address( Input : Access Example ) return System.Address 
>> > with Inline; 
>> > 
>> > Type Example is limited record 
>> > Addr : System.Address := To_Address(Example'Access); 
>> > End record; 
>> > 
>> > Package Cvt is new System.Address_To_Access_Conversions(Example); 
>> > Function To_Address( Input : Access Example ) return System.Address is 
>> > ( Cvt.To_Address( Input.all'Access ) );

>> (what is it with this weird casing "convention" you use? makes the code 
>> quite hard to read ...)
> Really?
> How so?

Just looking at the first line, I see

   Type Example;

and I don't recognise it as Ada; I think that this is a textual comment
saying that this is an example relating in some way to types. Similar,
but a little less distracting, with other keywords throughout.

What is the convention? Is it perhaps that the first word on a line gets
capitalised? but then, in the second line, we have

   ... Input : Access Example ) return ...

and the third line starts with "with".

So it's just some keywords that get capitalised.

Basically, I find it jarring and distracting.

We would disagree about spacing round parentheses as well.

De gustibus ...!