Re: What do you think about this?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Laurent <lutgenl@icloud.com> writes:

> On Thursday, 25 June 2015 00:30:32 UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter  wrote:
>
> It sucks that renaming function Make_Antibiotique... to function
> Antibiotique ... doesn't work because I get conflicts between the Type
> Antibiotique and the function. So what is the recommendation for
> naming in this case.
>
> package Antibiotiques...
>
> type Antibiotique is private;
>
> function Make_Antibiotique... return Antibiotique;
>
> end Antibiotiques;

On option, that is often (but not always) used in the Ada Reference
Manual, is to append "_Type" to the type name whenever you run into this
problem.

That way, you don't have to waste time thinking of a "better" name;
you've already found the best name, but Ada won't let you use it, so you
need to add some noise. Make the noise extremely consistent, so it is
easy to ignore.

However, in this particular case, I agree with Simon; just use "Make" as
the name of the function; there is no need to repeat the name of the
package in the function name.

For that matter, there is no need to repeat the name of the package in
the type either:

package Antibiotiques is
   type Object is private;

   function Make () return Object;

...

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