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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/07/30
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In article <6pp9k8$77j$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
  "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> In a client-server model, I tend to favour the client against the server; in
> this context, it means that I choose a name that maximizes readability of
> the *variable declaration*, not of the *type declaration*.

I guess that's where you start to loose me. My philosophy is that *both*
sides need to be readable. After all, its just as likely (if not more) that
the server will break as the client. But again, this is the best overall
approach I have found so far. (Plus, it seems to be somewhat of a standard
now).

T.E.D.

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