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From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/25
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Organization: Delphi Internet Services <http://www.delphi.com/>
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Date: 1998-01-25T00:00:00+00:00
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>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?