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From: jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin)
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign
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Date: 1997/05/09
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"John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com> writes:
...
>I only wish the original designers of Ada83 had clued into this style
>from the start.  I find myself wishing Ada95 looked more like this:

>    Integer   : Integer_Type;
>    Natural   : Natural_Type;
>    Float     : Float_Type;
>    Boolean   : Boolean_Type;
>    Character : Character_Type;
>    String    : String_Type;
>    Duration  : Duration_Type;
>    ...

Two thumbs up!

In fact wouldn't be cool if Ada forced all types to have "_Type" suffixes.
Heh probably make those C hackers blood boil.

Jay