Re: Convention for naming of packages

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Le 09/02/2012 22:39, Jeffrey Carter a écrit :
> On 02/09/2012 02:10 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>>
>> I am thinking the plural could play this role. There may be a
>> limitation to its
>> application, as I feel to know some English nouns do not have a
>> plural, or are
>> spelled the same for both their singular and plural.
> 
> The plural is used a lot in the standard library (Ada.Strings,
> Ada.Containers).

Yes but the first question is do we want to have use clauses or not.

Using use it is fine to do:

   package Shapes is
      type Shape is ...
   end Shapes;

   with Shapes; use Shapes;
   O : Shape;

It would be awful to write:

   with Shapes;
   O : Shapes.Shape;

I try avoiding use clauses, so my naming is more:

   package Shape is
      type Object is tagged ...
   end Shape;

   with Shapes;
   O : Shape.Object;

For tagged type I like Object or Instance.

For other type, well it depends:

   package Server is
      type Data is record ...

or

   package Server is
      type Handle is record ...

Giving good names is the hardest part for me, not sure I have the best
scheme, but you asked me :)

Pascal.

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