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On 11/01/2010 10:06 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Shark8<onewingedshark@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> You could have appended "_Type" to the type declaration giving
>> "Character_Type."
>> This gives the added advantage of allowing your parameters to be
>> highly descriptive, especially if you use named-association when
>> calling the parameters.
>>
> That's another way around it. Nice. Thanks.

No, not nice. Terrible.

"_Type" is just noise; you could use "_Global_Nuclear_Warfare" just as well. You 
should never be adding unnecessary noise to your code.

S/W engineering involves putting in the effort to think of good names for 
everything in your code. "_Type" is a kludge to avoid doing that thinking.

In this case, the type defines the information for dealing with a Character, so 
I'd probably use Character_Info as the type name.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?"
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