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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:29:42 +0200
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Types,
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Date: 2009-10-30T09:29:42+02:00
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) wrote:
>>
>> The one which troubles me the most, is the most common convention
>> about type names, without a suffix. This one is very common, and so
>> much common that even the Ada standard packages set relies on it.
>> There are Boolean, not Boolean_Type, Integer, not Integer_Type, as
>> this Chapter 3 recalls.
> 
> A quick Google groups search will find more than one long thread on this 
> subject. Basically, people fall into 2 groups on this subject: those who 
> agree with me, and those who are wrong :)
> 
> Some people are wrong the other way: They don't allow type suffices, but 
> instead use object and parameter prefixes: A_, An_, The_.
> 
> FWIW, I am currently on a large, multi-person project which outlaws 
> _Type, _T, and the prefixes, and the resulting code is quite readable.

Interesting. How does you project solve the type-naming problem? Do you 
have some positive rules for naming types and objects, or only those 
negative prohibitions against suffixes and prefixes?

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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