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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: 29 May 2003 14:51:28 -0400
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Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> writes:

>  > In some of my code I used first letter to indicate the type
>  > something like Hungarian notation with T. e.g.
>  > i - integers, names like iCount, iMoney etc
>  > s - string
>  > b - boolean
>  > f - float
>  > It gives the code great clearance, but it would be hard to deal this way
>  > with self-defined types.
> 
> This is just as offensive as HTML newsposts.
> (Or stupid newsreaders that answer posts in HTML when I don't want them to!)
> 
> Anyway, you discover a variable needs to be a float instead of an integer,
> so you have to search and replace through all the clients?
> Ada is a high-order language--that means it should express the abstraction,
> NOT the implementation.

More importantly, a typical Ada program has hundreds of integer types,
so putting "i" at the front of variable names doesn't tell you much of
anything interesting.

- Bob