Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 05/20/2016 10:44 AM, jrmarino wrote:
> On Friday, May 20, 2016 at 5:18:02 PM UTC+2, Martin wrote:
>> Two examples - firstly, words are encouraged to be separated by an underscore;
>
> I honestly have no idea what you are referencing here.

Identifiers such as Adabase and Tisokeywords. The "Ada Way" is Ada_Base and 
ISO_Keyword_List. Similarly, "read_uncommitted" and the like would be 
"Read_Uncommitted".

> Really?  "No need"?
>
> This compiles:
> package Martin is
>   type field_types is (ft_nbyte1, ft_nbyte2);
>   type nbyte1 is mod 2 ** 8;
>   type nbyte2 is mod 2 ** 16;
> end Martin;
>
> This doesn't:
> package Martin is
>   type field_types is (nbyte1, nbyte2);
>   type nbyte1 is mod 2 ** 8;
>   type nbyte2 is mod 2 ** 16;
> end Martin;

Really. These are terrible naming schemes. With a little thought you can come up 
with something better. I'd probably use something like

package Martin is
    type Field_Size_ID is (One_Byte, Two_Bytes);

    type Unsigned_One_Byte  is mod 2 **  8;
    type Unsigned_Two_Bytes is mod 2 ** 16;
end Martin;

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Jeff Carter
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