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From: Martin M Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/27
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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