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 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,e55245590c829bef
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Message-ID: 
 <6a4be998-e934-4a96-842c-c1e73b5bb11f@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan>
 <iale5p$2f6$1@tornado.tornevall.net>
 <86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan>
 <becbd7a4-89e6-4d81-b7d8-7d18ac75c1f9@j2g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>
 <86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <ian4b2$p9h$1@tornado.tornevall.net>
 <op.vlibn4shule2fv@garhos> <Xns9E25839F7A0A1WarrensBlatherings@81.169.183.62>
 <4cd19583$0$6977$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>
 <Xns9E25A942893A1WarrensBlatherings@81.169.183.62>
 <4cd1e2ec$0$6978$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>
 <Xns9E26659AFE395WarrensBlatherings@188.40.43.230>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.165.42.54
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1288904268 5065 127.0.0.1 (4 Nov 2010 20:57:48
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:57:48 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.165.42.54;
 posting-account=g4n69woAAACHKbpceNrvOhHWViIbdQ9G
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US;
 rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.0.10, Ant.com Toolbar 1.3,gzip(gfe)
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16206
Date: 2010-11-04T13:57:48-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Nov 4, 1:59=A0pm, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus expounded in news:4cd1e2ec$0$6978$9b4e6d93
> @newsspool4.arcor-online.net:
>
[snip]
> There is only ever going to be _ONE_ instance of that type. =A0
> So what names do you give the type and the single instance?
>
> Terminal : Terminal_Type;
> -- or
> The_Terminal : Terminal;
[snip]

Personally, I prefer:

   Terminal : A_Terminal;

At least this preserves the English meaning of the indefinite
article. :-)

-- Martin