From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-04 14:05:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9pif1o01btl@drn.newsguy.com> <3BBCC7EF.6C59C85D@otelco.net> Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 17:04:49 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 21:04:49 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13743 Date: 2001-10-04T21:04:49+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BBCC7EF.6C59C85D@otelco.net>, Larry Hazel says... >"mike@nospam" wrote: >> package foo_pkg is... >> >> i.e. the name of the package contains "pkg" or "package" in the name itself. >> >> this seems redundent to me, but may be not. what do folks think? >That is sponsored by the Department of Redundancy Department. I think it is an >ugly distraction, similar to adding _Type to type names. I notice the RM >doesn't defint Integer_Type, Float_Type, etc. I think its dangerous to point to the LRM as the cannonical source of proper naming, but otherwise I agree completely. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.