From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: a question of form
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:23:06 +0100
Date: 2014-08-28T14:23:06+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyoav4iw91.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ltn5d3$4s6$1@dont-email.me
"G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> writes:
> On 27.08.14 09:17, AdaMagica wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 7:00:47 AM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>> I've always used title capitalization for identifiers. That is,
>>> capitalize them like a title (which is almost, but not quite the
>>> same as Initial_Caps). Thus, Good_and_Bad rather than
>>> Good_And_Bad. This gets me into trouble with the RM, because that
>>> requires capitalizing words that one *never* capitalizes in English.
>>
>> I also like this style, and now I have a name for it.
>
> What will be the most wanted (and least controversial)
> words for title case exception in English and other natural
> languages?
>
> (I'm collecting them for a patch of Ada mode for Emacs,
> which makes Good_and_Bad appear automatically.)
The concept is quite close to "stop words" --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words
As it says in the article, not to be confused with safe words :-)
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-25 20:33 a question of form gdotone
2014-08-25 20:56 ` Simon Clubley
2014-08-25 22:08 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-08-26 1:06 ` gdotone
2014-08-26 7:04 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-08-26 17:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-08-27 5:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-27 7:17 ` AdaMagica
2014-08-28 11:56 ` G.B.
2014-08-28 13:23 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2014-08-28 14:08 ` G.B.
2014-08-28 19:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-28 20:19 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-28 20:48 ` Simon Wright
2014-08-28 18:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-08-28 19:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-08-29 11:55 ` G.B.
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