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From: Ben Brosgol <brosgol@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign
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Date: 1997/05/14
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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