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

[tmoran@acm.org]

> An example trap (to me at least) : what about a type which would seems
> obviously named Size and a parameter which seems obviously named
> Size ? X would surely not be OK, neither Item.

  There is no Size by itself - it's the Size of something. So a function
to calculate the price of a pumpkin, based on its size, would be
  function Price(Pumpkin_Size : Size) return Dollars;
You can shorten by using a pronoun and depending on the context to
disambiguate:
  function Price(Its_Size : Size) return Dollars;
That's as far as you can go if Size is the type name.  If you used
something else, eg Size_Type or Size_T or Sizes, then you could shorten
the parameter name all the way to Size.  Since you probably write variable
names much more often in the code than the type name, it makes sense to
try to shorten them, at the expense of slightly longer type names.
IMHO