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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63a41ccea0fc803a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages Date: 1998/08/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 380905914 Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) References: <6qfp80$p0u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6qnbms$ld7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu writes: > Yes, that's the same reason I am usually too afraid to venture into c.l.a. > :-) I wish we could all discuss the advantages and disadvantages of specific features of programming languages, without getting into the "My Language is better than Your Language" mode. Oh, well. > The Eiffel convention is to use uppercase for class names and lowercase for > feature names. Does this fit the bill? Some compilers won't even accept > source code that does not follow this convention, so other programmers not > conforming is not an issue. The "some compilers" above introduces another point: Shouldn't the language standard specify one way or the other?! > > Obviously, people are free to have different opinions, and I wouldn't want > > to start another Eiffel/Ada flamefest, so I generally avoid posting my > > opinion on the Eiffel ng. > > That's probably the safest thing to do. :-) Sigh. ;-) - Bob -- Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.