From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e55245590c829bef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to? References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <82lj5c5ecm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:06:10 -0400 Message-ID: <824oby628d.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SISDEXJvSUGPJlLoCnjGDLswv3k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 9c8464cd14dc5e029e66125115 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15159 Date: 2010-11-03T08:06:10-04:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > 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 names is a waste of time are clearly not S/W engineers. Ok, you seduced me into arguing again. After all, I have _some_ pride :). Those who don't understand the purely syntactic role of the _Type suffix are clearly not S/W engineers. I didn't say "don't choose good names". I said "don't waste time choosing names when _Type will do perfectly". I bear some blame; I should have presented the religious argument in a more balanced way when trying to terminate it. Sigh. Can we get back to real issues now? -- -- Stephe