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From: "Norman H. Cohen" <ncohen@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: _Type (was: Re: An array of records within an array of records (Still a problem))
Date: 1998/05/06
Date: 1998-05-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35508D3F.4CB@watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 354FB3A5.4522@atlas.otago.ac.nz


Dr Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

> 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".

If you end your type names with "_Type", the rule is simply to read the
colon as "is of" instead.  Constructs such as

   for Day in Weekday_Type

read more naturally using the _Type suffix.

-- 
Norman H. Cohen
mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen




  reply	other threads:[~1998-05-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-05-02  0:00 An array of records within an array of records (Still a problem) tmoran
1998-05-04  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-05-06  0:00   ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-05-06  0:00     ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1998-05-08  0:00       ` _Type (was: Re: An array of records within an array of records (Still a problem)) Michael F Brenner
1998-05-06  0:00     ` An array of records within an array of records (Still a problem) Robert Dewar
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