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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Suffix _T for types found good
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:10:02 +0100
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Steve wrote:

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|""Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com> wrote in message                    |
|news:4899d2af$0$19731$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net...                             |
|> amado.alves@gmail.com wrote:                                               |
|>                                                                            |
|>> Regarding "_T" vs. "_Type" I am convinced the former is better but I      |
|>> have to leave the advocacy for later. Or for others ;-)                   |
|>                                                                            |
|> Personally I prefer _Type. Yes it is more verbose but it follows the       |
|> convention of using fully spelled out words for things. For access types I |
|> [..]                                                                       |
|                                                                             |
|I go with _Type too, [..]"                                                   |
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I prefer _Type instead of _T.

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|"For years the convention at work (I'm not sure where it came from) was to   |
|precede type names with a lower case "a" or "an" so a declaration would be   |
|something like:                                                              |
|                                                                             |
|  index : anIndex;                                                           |
|  buffer : aBuffer;                                                          |
|                                                                             |
|Since I used the convention for years I can say it helped readability a lot, |
|but every once in a while I did run into cases where I would want a variable |
|name to start with a or an and would have to choose something different, or  |
|accept some "different" looking code."                                       |
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I do not remember having had seen this convention before. I like a
variant of it: a_buffer instead of aBuffer.