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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/08/03
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In article <m37m0suor4.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>,
  Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk> writes:
>

> > So why not call them just File? (OK, you can't "use" with such gay
> > abandon, good thing too :-)
>
> Someone responded by arguing that you could do this:
>
> declare
>    File : Configuration_IO.File;
> begin
>
> but I don't care for this because it has the same problem as
> Jean-Pierre's Package_Name.Instance convention: it tries to elevate the
> package name to the same status as a type name.

No, its not the type name. But it is used as *part* of the type name. Think of
it as a family name. Just like "Romeo Montague" means "Romeo of the family
Montague", Configuration_IO.File means "File of the package Configuration_IO".

T.E.D.

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