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Subject: Re: Types,
 packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question (without
 religious ware)
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com>
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in 
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> Yes, but reading is also important. The _Type suffix is essentially
> noise when reading; it's only there for the compiler, not the human.
> So you want to read it as few times as possible, as well as write it
> as few times as possible.

This seems backwards to me. I could use a type name such as X72efY9 for all 
the compiler cares. The _Type suffix is most definitely for the human. It 
says, "Hey! This is the name of a type so keep that in mind when looking at 
this code."

In the past I used _Type as a suffix for all of my types. However, there 
are times when that doesn't seem to fit. After all the standard types don't 
(usually) use a _Type suffix (Character, Integer, Positive, Vector, etc). 
Lately I've become a lot less strict about using _Type suffixes in my code.

Peter