Re: ADA and return functions (Strings)

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1021840081.14696.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> The use of verb phrases as the names of functions is not 
> considered the best practice addording tho the Ada Style 
> Guide.  Instead function names should be noun phrases. 
? So I would simply name this function Version.

This is of course merely a matter of personal preference.
Personally I prefer to use the noun phrase (like Version)
if the version is something that is an immediately 
available attribute, but I incline to Get_Version if
there is significant work to do in obtaining it. It is
partly a matter of whether you think of the function as
a mathematical function, or whether you think of it as a
significant block of code that has something to do.

Anyway, choose names that sound right to you, you do not
have to follow simplistic rules :-)