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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 <m3vhogw00r.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
  Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:

> So let's use a neutral name like "File_Type", so that that all I have to
> do is make a single change - to change the instantiation from
> Sequential_IO to Direct_IO.  All the file objects have the same type
> name.  All the operations have the same signiture too, so no code needs
> changed.

I still whould have gone with "File" instead of "File_Type".
:-)

T.E.D.

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