From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c39ad3e35a7690a9 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.205.129.8 with SMTP id hg8mr2162093bkc.6.1329278945519; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:09:05 -0800 (PST) Path: t13ni28492bkb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:09:01 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <4f355230$0$21451$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="27168"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/es4GNKC7rr9Ho42ntY5fPsisMOol9EuE=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cA0O2BhXpu/rZ1bE7rfjRw9t3BA= sha1:af3/3QxWQ2baIHhR60jJZiWZy2M= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2012-02-15T04:09:01+00:00 List-Id: Manuel Collado writes: > I have a personal criteria about the choice of short/long identifiers: > > The length of an identifier should be proportional to the > "distance" between uses of it and its definition. Log of the scope in lines? Square root? (:ducks:) I've adopted AdaCore's convention to use J instead of the (potentially confusing) I in for J in Foo'Range loop