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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/07/29
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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Brian Rogoff wrote:
> > My issue with this is that I often coencapsulate types, and sometimes
> > there is no main type in a package, though I suppose thats easy enough to 
> > fix by using T,U,V,W, ... or T1, T2, T3, ... 
> 
> Oops, I forgot to put a string of ":-)" here!

But you bring up a good point.  Frequently, there are types that are
cohesive enough that they really belong together in the same package.
An example is a data structure (say a stack or queue) and its associated
active iterator, connected by a factory method.

The problem is, if you name the stack type Instance, then what do you
name the iterator type?