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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:13:03 +0200
Date: 2012-02-15T08:13:03+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9q10nfFj2bU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zkck20wy.fsf@pushface.org>

On 12-02-15 06:09 , Simon Wright wrote:
> Manuel Collado<m.collado@domain.invalid>  writes:
>
>> I have a personal criteria about the choice of short/long identifiers:
>>
>>     The length of an identifier should be proportional to the
>>     "distance" between uses of it and its definition.

I do the same, informally.

>
> Log of the scope in lines? Square root? (:ducks:)
>

It could be amusing to try to measure the correlation from sources. 
Perhaps a job for ASIS...

> I've adopted AdaCore's convention to use J instead of the (potentially
> confusing) I in
>
>     for J in Foo'Range loop

I tend to use the first letter of the array or type identifier:

    for E in Events_Type loop
       for L in Event_Description(E).Lines'Range loop
          Print (Event_Description(E).Lines(L)));
       end loop;
    end loop;

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 21:10 Convention for naming of packages Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-09 21:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-10 15:07   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-10 17:04     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-10 17:09     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-10 17:41       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13  9:33       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11  0:56     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-13  3:09       ` BrianG
2012-02-10 17:21   ` Pascal Obry
2012-02-10 18:03     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11  1:06     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-11  9:22       ` Simon Wright
2012-02-11 10:17         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11 19:24           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11 20:06             ` Simon Wright
2012-02-12  9:18               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-12 10:22                 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-13  9:21         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-12 19:53       ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-12 21:19         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13  8:53           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13  9:12             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 11:03               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 11:57                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 12:30                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 13:07                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 14:01                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 14:59                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 15:05                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 15:23                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-14 21:02                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 13:01                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 13:04                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 13:19                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 14:20                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 15:11                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 16:24                             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 17:19                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 18:10                                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 21:02                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-14  9:08                                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 13:33                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-14 14:40                                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 15:26                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 10:45             ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-13 10:59               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 10:18           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 11:51             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 22:21               ` Manuel Collado
2012-02-15  4:09                 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-15  6:13                   ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2012-02-15 11:26                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-15 11:39                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15 11:47                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15  6:30                   ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-15  8:36                     ` Simon Wright
2012-02-15 22:56                     ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-15 11:27                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-15 11:43                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15 12:33                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15 12:55                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-15 17:30                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-09 22:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-09 22:35 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-10 14:38   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-10  9:47 ` Mart van de Wege
2012-02-10 14:24   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13  3:02     ` BrianG
2012-02-10 12:19 ` Brian Drummond
2012-02-10 14:22   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-10 19:16   ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-11 16:31 ` Martin Dowie
2012-02-16 17:44 ` Convention for naming of anything Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 19:46   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 21:53     ` Manuel Collado
2012-02-17 22:12       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 23:52   ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-18  0:24     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-18  0:50       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-18 22:53         ` BrianG
2012-02-19 11:16           ` Simon Wright
2012-03-06  0:36             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-18 11:32   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-18 13:02     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-19 18:07   ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-19 21:53     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-20  0:21       ` Phil Clayton
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