From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!gegeweb.org!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Types, packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question (without religious ware) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:05:29 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1257199530 22787 69.95.181.76 (2 Nov 2009 22:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:05:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8947 Date: 2009-11-02T16:05:29-06:00 List-Id: "Stephen Leake" wrote in message news:u8wet6ttv.fsf@stephe-leake.org... ... >> I do not mean I'm surprised this convention is working fine with the >> Ada standard packages set, I know there is probably a reason which >> explains why it works in this one case : > > It works for the standard because people are very flexible, and can > work around quirks like this while convincing themselves it's better. > > It would take less effort to use a package if all types followed the > _Type convention. Then more people would have more time to write more > Ada code, and we'd take over the world. This note gave me a good laugh. At one point, Matt had use "_Type" in all of the names used in the containers. There are enough people who hate that convention that we ended up changing it. I was surprised by that reaction: Claw uses "_Type" in about 95% of its types (there are few cases where other suffixes made the "_Type" look like pure noise) -- and I don't recall anyone complaining. I would have preferred to continue to use "_Type" in most cases, but it isn't that big of a deal to me. Randy.