"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> a �crit dans le message news: u8z3zzvdx.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov...
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> > Coming from C++, what I used to think of as a class (a type and its
> > associated methods) is now roughly equivalent to a package.  Whenever I
> > try to name a package, I use what I normally think of as the type
> > itself.  For example, I would put a vector type in a package Vector or a
> > regular expression type in a package Regular_Expression.  However, once
> > I name the package, I am at a loss for what to call the data type inside.
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See "A naming convention for classes in Ada 9X", Ada Letters Vol XV n� 2, for a discussion of a solution to this problem. You can
also download the paper from http://www.adalog.fr/publica2.htm

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