From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b3855c7c1e6ef286 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lucretia Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Naming convention for constructor functions Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5f1f42a3-31ea-4bac-8e3e-29483474e282@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.194.162.224 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205334904 26047 127.0.0.1 (12 Mar 2008 15:15:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:15:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.194.162.224; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20317 Date: 2008-03-12T08:15:04-07:00 List-Id: On Mar 12, 1:43 pm, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > I can also imagine Create_T, Construct_T, etc., but Make_T seems to be > the shortest while still conveying the meaning properly. Is it also > most widely used? IIRC, the style guide mentions both Make_T and Create_T. I can image Constructor_T being a pain to type after a while, the first 2 convey meaning and are short, so I'd pick one of those. Luke.