- 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Grant Jacobs Ph.D. BioinfoTools ph. +64 3 478 0095 (office, after 10am) PO Box 6129, or +64 25 601 5917 (mobile) Dunedin, gjacobs@bioinfotools.com NEW ZEALAND. Bioinformatics tools: deriving knowledge from biological data Bioinformatics tools - software development - consulting - training Check out the website for more details: http://www.bioinfotools.com The information contained in this mail message is confidential and may be legally privileged. Readers of this message who are not the intended recipient are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immed- iately and destroy the original message. This applies also to any attached documents.