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From: Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to?
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On Nov 2, 2:02=A0pm, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org>
wrote:
> On 11/02/2010 01:17 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>
> > _Type vs "waste time thinking up other names" is a religious argument
> > (guess which side I'm on?); it has never been settled before, and won't
> > be settled this time.
>
> Those who think the essential S/W-engineering activity of choosing good n=
ames is
> a waste of time are clearly not S/W engineers.
>

Bah. Pick a good type name and then suffix it with "_Type". That makes
it an even better type name.