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From: "Norman H. Cohen" <ncohen@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/07/28
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dennison@telepath.com wrote in message <6pirk1$iar$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...

>Again, you have encoded the fact that it is a type in the type's name. I
don't
>need that information, and it leads to really stupid looking things like
>"Command_Type_Type".


Consider Command_Variant_Type, or Command_Format_Type, or Command_Kind_Type.

The _Type suffix serves not only to announce "This is a type name," but to
leave other parts of the name space available for other purposes, e.g. for a
variable or formal parameter named Command_Kind, of type Command_Kind_Type.

-- Norman Cohen