MISRA new rule suggestion

"Mike Harrison" <mike@whitewing.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 20 Jun 2005 05:29:08 -0700, ian_okey@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >David Tweed wrote:
> >> Rob wrote:
> >> > (1) __loop. Well, how are you supposed to drop that into polite
> >> > conversation?
> >>
> >> "under-under-loop"
> >>
> >> > (2) time_left so how could you tell it apart from TimeLeft?
> >>
> >> "time-under-left"
> >>
> >> -- Dave Tweed
> >
> >Following Mr pre-decremented Tweed's suggestion, I am going to have to
> >start using the following
> >
> >_Milkwood
>
> >_score
> ..well as _ is often called an  "Underscore", that one could causeeven
more confusion....
>
>

And probably a little mis_standing.

In article <uy8933xdy.fsf@news.dtpq.com>,
Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
>The programming language that I usually work in (Lisp) uses a
>different set of conventions.  First of all, case doesn't matter.
>If you say "UNDER" or "under" it means the same thing, so we
>don't bother with run-together words and worrying about the case.
>
>And although you could use underscore, nobody does, because we
>can use dash ("-"), which reads more naturally.   I make this
>claim, because nobody is ever instructed not to use underscore.
>They know that they could, and many of the older programmers
>came from languages (like PL/I) where that's you always did.
>And yet nobody --- in particular, no newbies -- ever even
>suggest using underscores.   I think the only reason this is
>not done in other languages is the infix subtraction problem.

Well, in Forth we use the dash convention often too.
I have defined the word _ as "push a don't care value to the
stack". Its prononciation is "don't care". Forth uses any number
of weird character combinations, but the prononciation is
known:
*/mod  "star-slash-mod"
+!     "plus-store"
$^     "string-index"

Not only the founder, Chuck Moore, insists that words are
pronouncable, he prefers them to form sentences.

Further most Forth's are case-insensitive, although I don't really
like that.

>So we would always just write "time-left", pronounced "time left".

Groetjes Albert.

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