From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,d2bfd9e7e44fbefe,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.213.68 with SMTP id nq4mr21381pbc.6.1347477011951; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: t10ni21747737pbh.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ctu-peer!news.nctu.edu.tw!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada's identifiers casing considered ugly Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:01:02 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: UQ3nF6iY9KGTJalHZVBvng.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.02 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-09-05T21:01:02+02:00 List-Id: (this topic is for fun) I was reading the Python's PEP=E2=80=918, which I have not read so far, = when just = saw this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ > The following naming styles are commonly distinguished: > [=E2=80=A6] > Capitalized_Words_With_Underscores (ugly!) With an exclamation mark, above all. Just to get back to a more interesting topic, I also had another though = = while reading this PEP: this may help if there was such a precise layout= = convention for Ada as the one there is for Python. But may be the one of= = AdaCore is more widespread than I believe (we already discussed this a b= it = with in old topic about the *_Type convention). -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity