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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/09/06
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On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, John G. Volan wrote:
> Matthew Heaney wrote:
> > 
> > My philosophy is to use the name _Type only as a last resort, as it has
> > a sort of generic quality to it.  
> 
> Funny, I'd say its precisely this quality that should make _Type the
> *first* resort! :-)  It's so generally applicable as a type-marking
> suffix one might as well use it everywhere...

Exactly my line of thinking too :-|. This is one of the reason's I like
the Dylan convention of delimiting type names with angle brackets; this 
convention has the pleasing (to me) effect of making type names look very 
different from other lexical items.

-- Brian