From: "John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com>
Subject: Re: naming convention discussion
Date: 1997/05/14
Date: 1997-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3379EFF4.2B57@sprintmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5lbr6k$2r92@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Peter Hermann wrote:
>
> One thing which I observed on myself was the positive fact,
> that when I forced myself to omit the "_type"-extension,
> I was indeed forced to think deeper
IMHO, thinking deeply about the kind of name distinctions I've been
talking about is wasted effort.
> about the correct meaning of
> both objects and types of the abstraction;
I do that anyway. What you describe is the tail wagging the dog: Use the
great name hunt as the way to force you to analyze your semantics. I
say, think deep thoughts about the semantics (e.g., do some
object-oriented analysis, build OMT or UML models, etc.), and then let
the names fall out automatically from that.
> which in turn led to better names.
> You may try it yourself ;-)
Oh, I have, I have. Gave it up as a lost cause... :-)
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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 ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-09 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-05-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
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 ` 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
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 ` 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
1997-05-16 0:00 ` naming convention discussion Peter Hermann
1997-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-20 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
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
1997-05-10 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-10 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
1997-05-12 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 [this message]
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
1997-05-12 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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