Re: Convention for naming of anything

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:44:46 +0100, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)  
<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
> With functional representation in mind, when an object X' is a value  
> derived from an object X in a recursive algorithm, which way do you name  
> both X and X', as the Prime symbol is not allowed in Ada names?
>
>   * X1 and X2 ?
>   * X_1 and X_2 ?
>   * X and X2 ?
>   * X and X_2 ?
>   * X and X_Prime ?
>   * X and New_X ?
>   * X and Derived_X ?
>
> Note that the question may makes sense with loops too.

After some testing (writing then reading later), seems X and X2 is the  
best. Others looks too long compared to a Prime sign added to a name, and  
I feel X_2 looks ugly compared to X2. Two primes can then be written X3,  
three as X4 and so on.

That's personal feeling after dirty personal tests, comments about  
readability and understandability are still welcome (whether or not I  
agree with comments).


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