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From: Manuel Collado <m.collado@domain.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Convention for naming of anything
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:53:49 +0100
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El 17/02/2012 20:46, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) escribió:
> Le Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:44:46 +0100, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
> <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
>> With functional representation in mind, when an object X' is a value
>> derived from an object X in a recursive algorithm, which way do you name
>> both X and X', as the Prime symbol is not allowed in Ada names?
>>
>> * X1 and X2 ?
>> * X_1 and X_2 ?
>> * X and X2 ?
>> * X and X_2 ?
>> * X and X_Prime ?
>> * X and New_X ?
>> * X and Derived_X ?
>>
>> Note that the question may makes sense with loops too.
>
> After some testing (writing then reading later), seems X and X2 is the
> best. Others looks too long compared to a Prime sign added to a name, and I
> feel X_2 looks ugly compared to X2. Two primes can then be written X3,
> three as X4 and so on.

At first glance, it seems more "natural":

X -> X
X' -> X1
X'' -> X2
etc.

>
> That's personal feeling after dirty personal tests, comments about
> readability and understandability are still welcome (whether or not I agree
> with comments).

-- 
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado