From: Martin M Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/27
Date: 1998-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XEnw2CAjcjz0EwD4@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.3.96.980126142622.22503A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980126142622.22503A-
100000@shell5.ba.best.com>, Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes
>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
Yup, i'll hold my hand up for that one - i was marked down for tautology
in my (british) english exams at school and i've yet to see any reason
why repeating that something is a type in its declaration should have
any more merit when writing programs ;-) (i just remembered that the
very first project i worked on, spent a week just after i joined
removing '_p' and '_f' from procedure and function names - glad i wasn't
paying the bill for all the effort!!).
it does help emphasis the distinsion between a class and an
instance/object (e.g. type A_Bank_Account v's
My_Deeply_Overdrawn_Account) but i misguided you in indicating that that
was *why* this convention was choosen (although it is mentioned in the
coding standards as an example of how the distinctions between objects
and classes can be emphasised) - i suspect the consultant who wrote the
division's CoP had just read the same book you had.
as i said, this is simply the standard at my current contract - just
fishing for opionions.
--
Martin M Dowie
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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 ` 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 ` Brian Rogoff
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 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Pred Nick Roberts
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 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
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie [this message]
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
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Two simple language questions (plural types) Brian Rogoff
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Two simple language questions Robert Dewar
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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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