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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-04 15:00:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <9pif1o01btl@drn.newsguy.com> <3BBCC7EF.6C59C85D@otelco.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1002232827 11803 129.241.83.82 (4 Oct 2001 22:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:00:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13746 Date: 2001-10-04T22:00:27+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 21:04:49 GMT, Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <3BBCC7EF.6C59C85D@otelco.net>, Larry Hazel says... >>"mike@nospam" wrote: >>> package foo_pkg is... >>> >>> i.e. the name of the package contains "pkg" or "package" in the name itself. >>> >>> this seems redundent to me, but may be not. what do folks think? >>That is sponsored by the Department of Redundancy Department. I think it is an >>ugly distraction, similar to adding _Type to type names. I notice the RM >>doesn't defint Integer_Type, Float_Type, etc. > > I think its dangerous to point to the LRM as the cannonical source of proper > naming, but otherwise I agree completely. :-( I thought it made the source code even more readable. Especially to add _Type to ones own types. It also removes namespace mixups/limitations. I mean if you define a type and you call it say: Word_Type you can still use Word as the variable name. I can see that skipping _Pkg may be better though... Preben Randhol