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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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On 12/14/2011 05:06 PM, Rego, P. wrote:

A few unrelated comments:

> Is it right to implement a pop function like the following? (Free is an Unchecked_Deallocation)
>     function Pop (Sender : access T_List) return Integer is

Your public interface should never use access types.

Anonymous types are a bad idea.

Psychologists have found that the 1st few letters of a word are the most 
important to recognizing what you're seeing. If many of your identifiers start 
with the same few letters ("T_"), you are making your code harder to read than 
necessary.

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Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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