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

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

Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> Why should I have to waste time on this?

The time is not wasted. I've said before that _T[ype] is an excuse for not doing 
necessary thinking. Good names document the code and make it easier to 
understand; mindlessly adding _T[ype] to a general concept name for the type 
name and mindlessly using the general concept name for all parameters and 
objects of the type doesn't. If you don't spend the time and effort involved to 
think about and use good names, then everyone who reads the resulting code has 
to do the equivalent thinking to understand the code.

When you see

Append (List => List, Element => Element);

you don't really know what's being appended to what. Compare that to

Append (Onto => Widget_List, Item => Next_Widget);

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I spun around, and there I was, face to face with a
six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and
walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass."
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