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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Quality and Style book discussion
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:48:54 +0000 (UTC)
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Anonymous Coward wrote:
> "Today" and "The_First_Day" are better variable names if the objects
> really have those meanings; but "This_Day" is lousy, because any noun
> (and non-boolean objects should be nouns) can follow "This_", which is
> completely meaningless.  "_Type" is meaningful, because it indicates a
> user defined type.  

It's just 2 or 3 characters longer than it needs to be! ;-)



> "A_" and "An_" is almost as meaningless as "This_", because *most*
> objects in a system are singular.  It's far less noise to make plural
> objects to stand out by adding an "s" or "_Array" or "_List".

I'm not advocating "A(n)_" for objects - just types. I don't have a 
problem with "An_Array_Of_Foos".



>    function compute_altitude (using : in temperature;
>                               and   : in dew_point;
>                               with  : in pressure) return altitude is
>    begin
> 
>       return (using + and / with);
> 
>    end compute_altitude;

Well that's just a pants idea - what if you have 7 parameters "and_also" 
"and_also_again"????