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From: "John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com>
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!]
Date: 1997/05/12
Date: 1997-05-12T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3377B12D.3F13@sprintmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 337788B6.193D@this.message


W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) wrote:
> 
> The fact that I would have chosen
> 
>     Fido : Dog;
> 
> does NOT mean I would have trouble comprehending
> 
>     Dog : Quadruped;

These toy examples are cute, but I fail to see how they scale up to a
practical scheme that works in real applications containing multiple
related abstractions that must be carefully disinguished to avoid reader
confusion (and sometimes author confusion).  (For a very small example,
see the Angle/Point/Rotation stuff I wrote in another followup to your
post.) 

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Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-05  0:00 assign help!! Ivan Gou
1997-05-06  0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-05-07  0:00   ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-05-08  0:00     ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] John G. Volan
1997-05-09  0:00       ` Jay Martin
1997-05-09  0:00         ` Jeff Carter
1997-05-09  0:00           ` John G. Volan
1997-05-09  0:00           ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00             ` Aaron Metzger
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Simon Wright
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-12  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-13  0:00                           ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-14  0:00                             ` Robert A Duff
1997-05-14  0:00                             ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-14  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-14  0:00                             ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-05-13  0:00                         ` David L Brown
1997-05-13  0:00                           ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-14  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00             ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-10  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-10  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-13  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-16  0:00                       ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-17  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13  0:00                     ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-11  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-16  0:00                 ` Wayne Magor
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-18  0:00                     ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-20  0:00                     ` naming convention discussion Peter Hermann
1997-05-14  0:00               ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Ben Brosgol
1997-05-14  0:00                 ` naming convention: trailing underscore Peter Hermann
1997-05-14  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-15  0:00                   ` Michael F Brenner
     [not found]                 ` <dewar.863717431@merv>
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` naming convention discussion Peter Hermann
1997-05-16  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-20  0:00                       ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-16  0:00                   ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Robert A Duff
1997-05-18  0:00                     ` Underscores in identifiers (was: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) Ben Brosgol
1997-05-17  0:00                   ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Arthur Schwarz
1997-05-17  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-17  0:00                       ` John G. Volan
1997-05-18  0:00                         ` Andrew Dunstan
1997-05-18  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-19  0:00                             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-19  0:00                             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00             ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-13  0:00                 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-13  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                     ` Do-While Jones
1997-05-14  0:00                       ` Stephen Leake
1997-05-14  0:00                       ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-15  0:00                         ` Tangent to Religious naming convention discussion W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-15  0:00                           ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                     ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-14  0:00                       ` John G. Volan
1997-05-14  0:00                         ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-14  0:00                           ` John G. Volan
1997-05-15  0:00                             ` Peter Hermann
1997-05-15  0:00                           ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00             ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Jeff Carter
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-10  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-12  0:00                 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00               ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00             ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-05-11  0:00           ` Doug Smith
1997-05-12  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1997-05-16  0:00           ` Wayne Magor
1997-05-16  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-05-17  0:00             ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-19  0:00               ` Doug Smith
1997-05-09  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-09  0:00       ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-09  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-12  0:00       ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-12  0:00         ` John G. Volan [this message]
1997-05-12  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-05-10  0:00     ` assign help!! Simon Wright
1997-05-14  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
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