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

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

>...  For example, the role
> can be given as "just any object" of the type.  I would not be
> comfortable with such an answer...

In some cases, "just any object" is the right answer.
No need for discomfort.
For example, parameters of general-purpose procedures.

    function To_Upper(X: String) return String;
    --  Convert X to upper case.

There's nothing interesting to say about X, except that
it's a String.  Just any String.  Trying to come up with
a meaningful name for X will just generate noise.

In the standard package Ada.Characters.Handling, it's
called Item, which is no more meaningful than X.

In the GNAT front end, there are huge numbers of parameters
declared as:

    N : Node_Id

- Bob