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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/08/01
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Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:

> You get the idea.  Everywhere where I declare a file instance, the type
> is named Sequential_File.
> 
> Now, suppose that as a build the software, or a requirement changes (not
> unlikely), I realize that I need direct file access, not just sequential
> access.  The means I have to do a new instantiation, and everywhere
> where there's a Sequential_File, there's now needs to be a Direct_File.

So why not call them just File? (OK, you can't "use" with such gay
abandon, good thing too :-)