From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/26
Date: 1998-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980126142622.22503A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n5rs5FAStOz0Ew2+@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Martin M Dowie wrote:
> In article <mheaney-ya023680002501980906220001@news.ni.net>, Matthew
> Heaney <mheaney@ni.net> writes
> >
> >Be consistant with the style used in the RM. If you ever have a question
> >about how to name something, then flip through the RM (or ask me :-) to see
> >how the RM does it, and name it that way. Don't make up a convention
> >because you think it's more "oo-like."
>
> I'm not making it up - this is the standard at the company i'm currently
> working for... i prefer not to see '_type' myself - if it made any sense
> we'd haev '_procedure', '_function' etc...
Where it would make sense is with an access to a function/procedure, so
I might declare
type Callback_Function is access function( ... yadda yadda ... )
return Return_Type;
which looks fine to me, though I might use _Func instead, so my
declarations would be
Foo_Callback, Bar_Callback : Callback_Func;
or just
Callback : Callback_Func;
> not sure about that - i know _lots_ of engineers who would add a '_type'
> no matter what language they are using "'coz we've always done it that
> way" - i'm sure we've all heard such reasoned arguement in our time...
Old straw man raises his ugly head. I might not add "_Type" in a language
that didn't (usually) have type declarations for variables , whether or
not it was statically typed (Lisp or ML, for example). Its a fine
convention, IMO of course, in Ada.
I believe I understand the arguments against suffixes on types, but it
seems you don't understand the arguments in favor of them. It has nothing
to do with a misguided notion of OO-ness or inertia.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-07 0:00 Two simple language questions Chip Richards
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Two simple language questions (plural types) Michael F Brenner
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Pred Nick Roberts
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <n5rs5FAStOz0Ew2+@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Two simple language questions (plural types) Brian Rogoff
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Two simple language questions Robert Dewar
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-01-13 0:00 Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Adam Beneschan
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-17 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Benoit Jauvin-Girard
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 tmoran
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-25 0:00 tmoran
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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