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From: Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to?
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:58:25 +0100
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Le Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:06:19 +0100, Mart van de Wege
> <mvdwege@mail.com> a écrit:
>>> 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.
>
> This is required because there is no dedicated name-space for types in Ada.
>
Yes, I've seen that before.

<snip explanation>

Thanks.

> Another common convention, is to use the suffix “_Kind” on
> enumerations. As an example, you have an enumeration type declared
> like this :
>
>    type Chocolate_Tablet_Kind is (Big, Medium, Small);
>
> This convention appears as an example in the ASIS library (which you
> may discover later).
>
> There are others, while just a few (there must not be too much). I
> personally use “_Class” and some others also use “_Array”.
>
Heh. The _Array suffix came rather naturally, as the domain-specific
term actually is 'Ability Array'. 'Class' however will clash rather
badly, as that is another domain-specific term (hmmm. Class_Class. That
would be funny).

Mart

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