Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it?

[john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:45:21 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol
<randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:


>Because reading:
>
>   Counter +:= 1;
>   Product *:= 5;

+:= 1 is probably a bad example because you'd expect to be provided
with an increment operator if you started going down that road
however, apart from the amount of typing involved, the advantage of
the pre- and post-increment operators were that it made it easier for
compiler writers to generate efficient code - i.e. it was *extremely*
obvious that you could convert the statement directly into the
underlying machines increment/decrement instruction (if it existed)
rather than having to go on and parse the number you're adding, the do
something different if the value was 1.