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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign
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Date: 1997/05/10
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In article <3373EAB5.73A0@sprintmail.com>,
John G. Volan <johnvolan@sprintmail.com> wrote:
>Jeff Carter wrote:
>
>> The problem with putting _Type on the end of all [sub]type names is that
>> it adds no information.
>
>But that's the whole point! Adding any more information is _undesirable_
>at this point, because presumably an object and its type _both_

Since taking on the learning of Ada95, I have adopted the old Pascal style
convention of prefixing 'a' to a capitalized type name: aTree, aList,
aStack, etc.

In C, I would favor a '_t' suffix, but this appears foreign in Ada
source. It just somehow seems impious.

Incidentally, the only reason I
would use such suffixes is to spare the fundamental type name for use
as a variable, e.g.    

    List : aList;

Other than that, I'm opposed to elaborate suffix or prefix schemes:
that Hungarian Notation thiing is a pet peeve!