Re: Types, packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question (without religious ware)

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) wrote:
> 
> The one which troubles me the most, is the most common convention
> about type names, without a suffix. This one is very common, and so
> much common that even the Ada standard packages set relies on it.
> There are Boolean, not Boolean_Type, Integer, not Integer_Type, as
> this Chapter 3 recalls.

A quick Google groups search will find more than one long thread on this 
subject. Basically, people fall into 2 groups on this subject: those who agree 
with me, and those who are wrong :)

Some people are wrong the other way: They don't allow type suffices, but instead 
use object and parameter prefixes: A_, An_, The_.

FWIW, I am currently on a large, multi-person project which outlaws _Type, _T, 
and the prefixes, and the resulting code is quite readable.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C's solution to this [variable-sized array parameters] has real
problems, and people who are complaining about safety definitely
have a point."
Dennis Ritchie
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