From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/25
Date: 1998-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6agcg1$i1k@lotho.delphi.com> (raw)
>This is the argument against _Type as a suffix. Because it's a noise word,
>it doesn't add any new information.
Don't think of it as the word "type", but rather as a suffix, analogous
to "s" or "ed" or "ing" in English. Thought of that way, it's quite
arbitrary what the character string is as long as the reading community
understands what's meant. "s" or "_t" or "_Type" are English-ish as the
multiple prefixes in "Windows Hungarian" are Bantu Kivunjo-ish.
It's somewhat odd, actually, that most computer languages use only word
order (counting punctuation symbols as words) for parsing and don't
use spelling/prefix/suffix changes to the words themselves as grammatical
indicators. I wonder if that will still be the case in 50 years?
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1998-01-25 0:00 tmoran [this message]
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Brian Rogoff
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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1998-01-14 0:00 tmoran
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 Adam Beneschan
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-17 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Benoit Jauvin-Girard
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-10 0:00 Two simple language questions (plural types) Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <n5rs5FAStOz0Ew2+@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
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