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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Type naming conventions: Any_Foo
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 18:45:05 +0100
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On 2019-12-05 18:27, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> I would even say that those who use naming conventions such as 
> _T[y[p[e]]] are either not S/W engineers or are shirking their duties.

There exist cases:

1. Formal generic types. They are customarily named XXX_Type.

2. Types which are artifacts of language issues or of design. These have 
no separate problem space meaning and thus no meaningful name. E.g.

    type Something is ...;
    type Something_Ptr is access Something;
       -- I don't want access type, I am required to have it 


BTW, this includes all sorts of helper types Ada kept introducing recently.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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