Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

Depends on how portable you want your code to be.  Some older systems, 
even some symbols are case insensitive.  For U2, Unidata is pickier out 
of the box about keyword case than UniData.   I've settled on UPPERCASE 
for reserved words and camelCase for variables.  But old-school die 
hards think it's totally unreadable. I think if you program in other 
languages, you find it appealing. If I discard the criticism of those 
who still embrace GOTO, then the objections are probably 1 out of 4.  
You know the programmer is poser if he writes GOTO as goTo :-)

-BD

On 12/20/2013 12:01 PM, Bobby Worley wrote:
> First off - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
>
> I'm starting to write a lot of new BASIC (Universe 11.1) subroutines for
> our DesignBais application, and since I'll be starting with a blank code
> template instead of modifying existing code, and I thought 'hey why not
> join the 21st century' and make the code look more mainstream, and
> readable.  (falling back on our last TEXMUG presentation by Clif Oliver on
> refactoring).
>
> And considering Universe 11.2 now supports local subroutines and functions,
> I should make the code look and behave more object-like.
>
> Does anyone know of a set of rules or guidelines on how to do this?    Just
> experimenting briefly, Universe BASIC compiler will allow any mix of cases
> for keywords, but variables are case sensitive.  Example:
>
>> ED BP TEST
> ABC=1
> Abc=2
> abc=3
> PRINT ABC
> Print Abc
> pRiNt abc
> stop
> end
>
>> RUN TEST
> 1
> 2
> 3
>
> So, how are developers mixed case in their code these day? Do keywords,
> local variables, common variable, equates follow a standard method?
>
> thanks in advance,
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