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From: Grant Jacobs
Subject: Upper/lower case in identifiers
Date: 12 Sep 2004, 15:53:39

>  >  - conventions like:
>>     globals capitalized, locals lowercase
>>  or
>>     agregates capitalized, scalars lowercase
>
>IMHO these are archaic conventions, coming from languages such as C
>(where there's only one global and one local level, in contrast to
>Pascal which has arbitrarily many levels, and a local variable of
>level 1 can behave like a global variable, seen from a routine at
>level 2, etc.), and assembler (where there's a general difference
>between aggregates and scalars). So I don't care much for such
>conventions.

They might be archaic (and I think so too), but one thing I'd like 
gpc to keep in mind is porting code to and from other languages. 
Silly things like this can help porting. Another example might be the 
use of leading underscores in identifiers; de facto std. in C for 
internal variables in libraries. In Pascal there is no practical need 
for these, but they are useful when shifting code to C or some other 
language.

I tend to program case-sensitive myself, partly habit and partly to 
create one less problems if I have to shift the code to another 
language.

Grant

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