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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign
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Date: 1997/05/10
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Date: 1997-05-10T00:00:00+00:00
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In my programming the name clash that I most often come across is something
like

    Parent : constant xxx := Parent (K);

now of course I don't want to use the same name in both places here, and
I have not really settled on a convention. I don't like The_Parent, because
I find The_ too much noise. Often I use an abbreviation if the scope is
very small, something like

   Parnt : constant xxx := Parent (K);

I know that some coders and some coding standards are allergic to
abbreviations, but I don't mind short identifiers and abbreviations if
they have a small local scope.