Re: Types, packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question (without religious ware)

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com> writes:

> A short reply to a long post:
>
> I share your perspective.  I work on "real" projects and our
> convention is to always use a "_Type" or " _Range" suffix on type and
> subtype names.  I've also tried "_T" and but didn't like it as much.

Interesting. I also use _Type, but I always have. I think in general,
abbreviations are discouraged in Ada. I know I generally tolerate
longer names in Ada than in C++.

> It is still tricky to name type hierarchies (e.g., arrays of
> records). I have occasionally used long suffixes like "_Record_Type"
> and "_Record_Array_Type" but that can quickly get out of hand.

That is not because of _Type; compound types are always harder to name.

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