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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:10:12 +0100, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Hi people out there,
> 
> There use to be here, discussions about naming convention of types,
> focusing on whether or not the _Type suffix should be used (I personally
> opted for it). Don't want to come back to this one here, but about
> another common (common for me) name conflict: package names which
> conflict with object names...

If you have accepted _type, then why not _pkg for consistency?

Then you have
Weather : Weather_type := Weather_pkg.predict;

I have seen this as a requirement in (VHDL) coding standards.
But where plurals are more appropriate, I would prefer them.
- Brian