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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Naming convention for classes?
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>  Today : Date.Object;
>  Today : Date;
>The second approach seems natural ...
  Agreed.
Remember that a package can contain more than one type definition, and
in general a package is a higher level of abstraction than any one of
its contents.  So you might do
  package Timestamps is
    type Date is ...
or
  package Historical_Records is
    type Date is ...
But as noted, it's often not obvious and it comes down to a personal
stylistic preference - presumably a reasonably consistent one.
Have you looked at "Ada Quality and Style"?