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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:56:29 -0500
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 15/02/2012 05:09, Simon Wright a �crit :
>> I've adopted AdaCore's convention to use J instead of the (potentially
>> confusing) I in
>> 
>>    for J in Foo'Range loop
>
> Recently, I adopted the convention to use the first letter of the array
> (rather than the systematic I):
>
> for T in Tab'range...
> for A in Arr'range...

The issue of what to call the array index largely disappears
in Ada 2012, because you can loop through the array components,
rather than looping through the indices and then doing indexing.

- Bob