From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2078dddcdcd8d83 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "John G. Volan" Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Date: 1997/05/09 Message-ID: <3372E486.77C2@sprintmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240423664 References: <5kjvcv$evt@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> <5kn8ko$jcc@top.mitre.org> <1997May7.201035.2439@nosc.mil> <33727EEA.2092@sprintmail.com> <2B7896AAF5813C74.8F68EC25E241D79E.597694DA2A962A51@library-proxy.airnews.net> Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Reply-To: johnvolan@sprintmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kevin Cline wrote: > > "John G. Volan" wrote: > > >I have now come around to accept Norman Cohen's approach: An unmarked > >noun should be reserved for an object, e.g.: > >"Target.Location.Latitude". The name of the type should be the one that > >gets marked, and what better universal marker for "typeness" than > >"_Type"? e.g.: > > > > Target : Target_Type; > > Location : Location_Type; > > Latitude : Latitude_Type; > > > > Absolutely agree. After I switched from C to Ada, and could no longer use > case to distinguish between instances and types, I looked at a lot of code, > including Booch's original Ada components, before settling on the _type > suffix, for all of the reasons Charles gave. Point of order: It wasn't Charles who said that, its was me. (It was I?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet.Usenet.Put_Signature (Name => "John G. Volan", Home_Email => "johnvolan@sprintmail.com", Slogan => "Ada95: The World's *FIRST* International-Standard OOPL", Disclaimer => "These opinions were never defined, so using them " & "would be erroneous...or is that just nondeterministic now? :-) "); ------------------------------------------------------------------------