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On 10.02.12 16:07, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

>    function Object (Param : Param_Type) return Object_Type;

Does Object do anything? Does it, for example, make an object
from Param? Is it in some kind of relationship between the
function Object and its Param? Is Object different from
Object_Type--other than being a function, not a type?

An obvious prefix in the first case might be Make_.

If it is possible to describe the relationship of the function
and its parameters, there might be a word in the description
that can serve as part of the function's name.

If Object is different from Object_Type, then the difference
likely has a description. Again, it might be possible
to find words in this description that will do for the function
and/or the type, words that have more meaning than _Type.

When I imagine a function to be a table, the parameters and the
result being the columns, I sometimes find a good name for
the whole thing, in context.