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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: naming, was Re: Design problem: generic package vs tagged subtype
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 04:13:14 +0000 (UTC)
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> That's one of the things I dislike in Ada - everything (types, variables,
> packages, operations) follows exactly the same naming convention and doesn't
> use any special character/whatever to distinguish between them, so you run
> out of good names in no time...
    You are welcome to invent your own prefixes or suffixes.  Words in
English often don't use those but depend on context and syntax to
disambiguate.  The fish in the bowl was one of the fish in the stream, but
I decided to go fish in the stream and tell this fish story.