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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd4fc3d2b22df500 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.66.80.41 with SMTP id o9mr7957046pax.4.1357349421271; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:30:21 -0800 (PST) Path: s9ni82798pbb.0!nntp.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: On Style: Any opinions on *not* capitalising the first letter of verbs in a procedure name ? Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:30:20 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1357349420 27357 192.74.137.71 (5 Jan 2013 01:30:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 01:30:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FJ9BQgiqhWMp4Nnzw6YpB8deygI= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2013-01-04T20:30:20-05:00 List-Id: Rod Kay writes: > Hmm, of course, it should have been ... > > Integers.reserve_Capacity (100); > > > (Why do I always spot these things just after hitting 'post' ... :) Hitting the "send" key gives one all sorts of magical enlightenment. ;-) As to whether your "reserve_Capacity" style is good or bad: It's not what everyone else does, so it's not a good idea. I suggest you save your creativity for higher-level stuff, like interesting algorithms and abstractions. For low-level stuff like indentation and casing, just blindly do what everybody else does. That makes the code more readable for everybody. - Bob