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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
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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