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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2afac1a4161c7f35 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Two simple language questions Date: 1998/01/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 313846959 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <690cuj$o23@lotho.delphi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Estormza Software Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <690cuj$o23@lotho.delphi.com>, tmoran@bix.com wrote: >In Matthew Heaney said: >>BTW: as a point of Ada style, do NOT name scalar types as a plural noun. >Some of us, OTOH, think plurals are good as type names. e.g. > Foreground, Background, Border : Colors; >And from the 1989 'Ada Quality and Style': "Consider using a plural >form as a type name." and "Using categories or plural nouns or noun >phrases as type names helps to emphasize their generic nature." Yet another example of why I dislike that book. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271