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: a07f3367d7,e55245590c829bef X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.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> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:17:29 -0400 Message-ID: <82lj5c5ecm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8hEYqlhq3zO4iQe5gcpHRIUf/1A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: cd7884ccfc6c3e029e66124593 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15140 Date: 2010-11-02T04:17:29-04:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > On 11/01/2010 10:06 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Shark8 writes: >> >>> You could have appended "_Type" to the type declaration giving >>> "Character_Type." >>> This gives the added advantage of allowing your parameters to be >>> highly descriptive, especially if you use named-association when >>> calling the parameters. >>> >> That's another way around it. Nice. Thanks. > > No, not nice. Terrible. _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. Just for the record, there is a third way; use the full names Parent.Character, Standard.Character. -- -- Stephe