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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.241.37 with SMTP id wf5mr9554427pbc.4.1329134269597; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:57:49 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni19875pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:57:48 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4f355230$0$21451$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <1sx3fy79wys5s.1723nejowbg76.dlg@40tude.net> <15fgcngmgl41e$.113i7gtuwpwpv$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: TqfFTdzi95I8zBbbKWTz3Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-02-13T12:57:48+01:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:03:05 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > 1. If you could meaningfully rename it afterwards, why would not you n= ame > it properly at the original declaration point? The context is then not the same. The most trivial example comes with Instance_Type. That's not the same = when it stands for the main type of a package and when it is used along = = with many other types. Can be compared with generics in some way. When something is named after its role, then the context matters, and th= e = name may change with the context. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity