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"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com> writes:

> Seriously though the 'A_'/'An_' notation is used in some s/w houses (I know
> of 3 spread across the UK), precisely to to highlight the difference between
> the abstract and the specific.

It's used in Smalltalk, too.  Eg, if a method takes two Strings, they
will typically be called aString and anotherString.  You can't declare
that they're of type String in Smalltalk -- the name of the thing (or a
comment) is the only hint.

- Bob