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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Vocabulary matter: Component vs Element vs Item
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:35:16 -0500
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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> I don't think anyone should take the design choices made in the BCs in
> 1998 as being in any way definitive. I didn't choose Item/Elem, and I
> suspect that a lot more effort went into Ada.Containers naming
> conventions (they were at least reviewed by the ARG!).

Yikes! This gave me a flashback to long discussions about the names of 
parameters and the like. I hope I don't have nightmares tonight. :-) ARG 
discussions about naming are rarely pleasant, because *everyone* has an 
opinion, and often they're completely different.

                                                      Randy.