From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: strange length check error
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:15:15 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2018-01-17T13:15:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p3ni92$c67$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ly3734alen.fsf@pushface.org
On 2018-01-17, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
>
> I agree. It's not the one from the standard library ((a) it's different,
> (b) the standard library doesn't use this ugly, hard to read,
> identifiers-in-upper-case style).
>
Someone was obviously following the Ada 83 style when they wrote that
code...
Not as annoying as some Wirth case sensitive languages however where
the keywords themselves are in uppercase. (Oberon comes to mind here.)
Simon.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-16 20:48 strange length check error Mehdi Saada
2018-01-17 1:42 ` Anh Vo
2018-01-17 9:23 ` Simon Wright
2018-01-17 12:13 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-01-17 13:19 ` AdaMagica
2018-01-17 13:41 ` Simon Wright
2018-01-17 21:37 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-01-18 11:12 ` Simon Wright
2018-01-17 13:43 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-01-17 14:03 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-01-17 16:15 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-01-17 19:43 ` Simon Wright
2018-01-17 21:37 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-01-17 23:00 ` Niklas Holsti
2018-01-18 11:07 ` Simon Wright
2018-01-17 13:15 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2018-01-17 8:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-01-23 16:18 ` Robert Eachus
2018-01-23 16:41 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-01-24 16:22 ` Robert Eachus
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