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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/07/30
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dennison@telepath.com a �crit dans le message
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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).
>
Of course, if you can have it both ways, it's better. I'm talking when a
trade-off is necessary, and normally a package is used more often than it is
maintained (hopefully :-). Thus my preference for the most common usage.
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