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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:13:03 +0200
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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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