Re: An array of records within an array of records (Still a problem)

["Dr Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Sorry, I couldn't resist. I use _Type, and I just spent the weekend
> reading the Ada 95 Booch components, which don't.  It was subtly
> frustrating.  It would be nice if we (the Ada community) could agree
> on a consensus for this issue, as we seem to have on the
> Capitalization_Of_Multi_Word_Names issue.

The rule I was taught is a very simple one.  You should name your
types and your variables so that an object declaration like

    Open_Goal_Set: Goal_Set;

can be read aloud as a TRUE and USEFUL sentence, pronouncing the
colon as "is a".  Hence
    Open_Goal_Set is a Goal_Set
works, but
    Open_Goal_Set is a Goal_Set_Type
doesn't work, and
    Open_Goal_Set is a Goal_Sets
_really_ grates.

Note that this _is_ consistent with the names of the Ada built in
types:
    Space: Character;
NOT
    Space: Character_Type;
or  Space: Characters;

Unlike capitalisation, where the case pattern was _defined_ not to
make any difference to the predefined things in the language, we
_can't_ _consistently_ switch to a *_Type or *s convention.