From: Ben Brosgol <brosgol@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!]
Date: 1997/05/14
Date: 1997-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <337934F2.7593@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.863298747@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> In my programming the name clash that I most often come across is something
> like
>
> Parent : constant xxx := Parent (K);
>
> now of course I don't want to use the same name in both places here, and
> I have not really settled on a convention. I don't like The_Parent, because
> I find The_ too much noise. Often I use an abbreviation if the scope is
> very small, something like
>
> Parnt : constant xxx := Parent (K);
Here's a modest proposal for Ada 0Y that will solve this problem: allow
an identifier to include a single trailing underscore. That way you
could write:
Parent_ : constant xxx := Parent (K);
with a minimum of notational overhead.
Too bad nobody thought of this idea for Ada 9X :-) :-)
Ben Brosgol
Aonix
brosgol@aonix.com
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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
1997-05-10 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 ` John G. Volan
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
1997-05-11 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 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-05-20 0:00 ` naming convention discussion Peter Hermann
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] John G. Volan
1997-05-14 0:00 ` Ben Brosgol [this message]
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 ` 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 ` Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!] Stephen Leake
1997-05-14 0:00 ` naming convention discussion 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
1997-05-09 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
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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