Re: Vocabulary matter: Component vs Element vs Item

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 26, 2013 9:35:16 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> 
> Yikes! This gave me a flashback to long discussions about the names of 
> parameters and the like. I hope I don't have nightmares tonight. :-) ARG 
> discussions about naming are rarely pleasant, because *everyone* has an 
> opinion, and often they're completely different.

That's very true. I'm surprised I haven't seen more usage of fully-qualified naming for parameter types. As an example reformulating from Booch's convention:

    package Stack_Sequential_Unbounded_Managed_Iterator is
       type Stack is limited private;
       procedure Clear (The_Stack : in out Stack);

becomes the following:
    package Stack_Sequential_Unbounded_Managed_Iterator is
        type Stack is limited private;
        procedure Clear (Stack : in out Stack_Sequential_Unbounded_Managed_Iterator.Stack);

This allows for some very nice named parameter associations with comparatively little effort on the part of the programmer writing the package (especially when you use RENAMES on the package's fully-qualified name in the package-body).