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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Quality and Style book discussion
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:49:59 +0000
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Anonymous Coward <spam@spam.com> writes:

> I also object to the guides comment advising against "Day_Type".
> It's a very good practice to suffix types with "_Type", "_Record",
> or "_Array", so it's clear from the identifier what it refers to,
> and also so you don't hijack a good variable name.  In the above
> case, "Day" can no longer be used to name an object.

This is one of the more contentious style arguments. If you work on my
project, I will insist that you _don't_ stick these useless suffices
on. And I'm not sure that Day is a good variable name; if it's not
worth giving it a name which indicates its use, what's wrong with
plain D? (we were tempted to have a local style guideline that the
length of a name should be log2(lines of scope)).

If I work on your project, I'll abide by your rules, of course.

> I'm surprized that section 2.1.5 permits:
>
>    procedure Display_Menu_On_Screen (
>          Title   : in     String;
>          Options : in     Menus;
>          Choice  :    out Alpha_Numerics
>        );
>
> The last line needlessly kills a line, and I always thought ending a
> line with an open grouping symbol (like "(") is pretty ugly.

Now here I completely agree with you!