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Date: 2019-06-26T11:00:00-07:00
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On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 12:16:51 AM UTC-7, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> That said, I do find it a little irksome that Ada's rules force one to 
> invent different, case-insensitive names for types on the one hand, and 
> variables on the other. This leads to conventions such as adding "_T" to 
> all type names, which seem ugly and cumbersome at first. But I don't 
> have any suggestions for a better solution.

As has been suggested on this list before, one solution to this is to prefix the type name with the package name:

package Cool_Thing is

   type Thing is tagged record ... end record;

   function Do_It (Thing : in Cool_Thing.Thing) return Integer;

It's still only syntax noise, but it appears in fewer places than the _T suffix.

--  Stephe