From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Small question concerning use
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:26:16 GMT
Date: 2001-10-16T20:26:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <IJ0z7.31791$ev2.38921@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3BCC8AF0.A8B1115D@san.rr.com
In article <3BCC8AF0.A8B1115D@san.rr.com>, Darren New says...
>
>Ted Dennison wrote:
>> I'd say you should stick with full dot notation until you get your feet fully
>> under you. After you get used to it, you may find that things like
>> Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_Unbounded_String aren't really all that bad.
>
>I'd be bothered by such stuff less if it wasn't so repetitive.
>Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Count instead of Ada.Streams.Count?
>How many times do I have to say "Unbounded" or "String"?
Well, yes. You aren't missing anything, your observation is dead on.
Unfortunately the folks who wrote the Ada libraries "took sides" on this issue.
The best thing to do here is to take it as a constant reminder to yourself to
pick better names for your *own* packages and objects.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 22:28 Small question concerning use Eric Merritt
2001-10-16 6:34 ` Rename is much better Petter Fryklund
2001-10-16 12:28 ` Small question concerning use Marc A. Criley
2001-10-16 13:27 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 19:31 ` Darren New
2001-10-16 20:26 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-10-16 21:26 ` David Starner
2001-10-17 0:18 ` tmoran
2001-10-17 2:48 ` Darren New
2001-10-17 10:52 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-17 13:48 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-17 14:21 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 20:35 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-18 18:46 ` Dr. Michael Paus
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