From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Self-referential types
Date: 1999/10/21
Date: 1999-10-21T12:41:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7un1me$6jm$1@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7um9ji$dor$1@nnrp1.deja.com
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> a �crit dans le message :
7um9ji$dor$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <380CA5AC.82499FE2@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>,
> Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote:
> > If good naming conventions are used, it can _greatly_ reduce
> > the need for comments.
>
> My own view is that good names are an *adjunct* to good
> comments, not a substitute for them.
>
I would say it the other way round:
Not everything can be put in good names, therefore comments are necessary to
express what cannot be put in the name.
But if the info is in the name, then it is repeated each time it is used;
therefore, I would discourage something like this:
LL : Natural ; -- this is the line length
in favour of the (comment-less):
Line_Length : Natural;
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[not found] ` <3802597B.9205AEE8@averstar.com>
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <7u86su$o5v$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <slrn80fl9f.68j.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Comments Georg Bauhaus
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Comments Ehud Lamm
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Comments Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Jerry van Dijk
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Ted Dennison
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-23 0:00 ` M.
[not found] ` <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.991021191504.30582K-100000@pluto.mscc.huji. <381477c9.e1388ff3@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Self-referential types Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Michel DELARCHE
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-12 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-14 0:00 ` Multiple Inheritance in Ada 95 [was Re: Self-referential types] Tucker Taft
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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