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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it?
Date: 06 Oct 2001 10:25:52 +0100
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Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> package Foo_Package is ...
> type Radian_Type is ...
> procedure Calculate_Procedure (Initial_Guess_In_Float_Parameter : in
> Float ...
> Number_Of_Widgets_Positive_Variable : Positive;
> Pi_Real_Constant : Constant := 3.14159;
> Maximum_Word_Length_Positive_Constant : constant Positive := X'Last +
> Padding;

Are you pulling our collective leg here?

Just to take that procedure .. what happens if it turns into a Double,
for instance?

I'm all in favour of thinking of sensible and helpful names, but I
can't think that sticking _<mode>_<type>_Parameter on the end of every
parameter of a procedure is going to help anyone.