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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/09/05
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"John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com> writes:

> > I do this sort of thing too:
> > 
> >    PDW : Pulse_Descriptor_Word;
> > 
> >    SOI : Signal_Of_Interest;
> 
> I thought one assumption in this discussion was that we were trying to find
> schemes that would allow us to avoid abbreviations.  But if abbreviations
> were fair game, then there would never have been an issue:

Those happen to be the terms people on our project really use to refer
to the entity.  "What was the value of the pee dee double-yew?"  "What's
the ess oh eye?"