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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Suffix _T for types found good
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:00:59 +0100
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amado.alves@gmail.com writes:

> And in sum, whatever the form, it's good to see that more Adaists are
> suffixists :-)

Those of us who are militantly against _T were perhaps on holiday ...

I believe that type names for units of measure should be plural, as in
common (English) usage:

   type Metres is digits 6;
 
and that enumerations should be singular:

   type Hostility is (Unknown, Friendly, Neutral, Hostile);

and see nothing wrong with short names for local variables or procedure
parameters:

   H : Hostility;
   I : Index;

though I admit it's not so clear for record components, which are much
more widely visible.

A lot of the reason for lack of clarity is that people don't spend
enough time thinking of the right names for things. The _T pattern can
let them off the hook too easily.

I do like _P for pointer types (and _G for generics), though!