From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Type naming conventions: Any_Foo
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:20:12 +0100
Date: 2019-12-06T21:20:12+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qsed5s$93u$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qsc2tq$shs$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk>
On 12/6/19 12:12 AM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Janus/Ada uses names picked Jeff's way (mostly, I've adopted the Claw rules
> for new things), and it is hard to figure out the name of something when you
> don't remember it. And an Ada compiler has a *lot* of declarations; it's
> hard to even find them in the package specs if you can't remember enough
> about the possible name for a search to work. (Janus/Ada's root go back to
> the fall of 1980, so it's common to not remember something! :-).
I don't see how adding _Type to the end of a name makes the part that comes
before _Type any easier to remember.
--
Jeff Carter
"Brave Sir Robin ran away."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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2019-12-04 13:56 Type naming conventions: Any_Foo Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-12-04 14:52 ` Lucretia
2019-12-04 16:42 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-12-05 10:51 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-05 17:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-05 17:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-05 20:03 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-05 21:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-05 23:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-06 20:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2019-12-07 1:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-06 20:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-06 20:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-07 0:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-07 10:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-07 12:36 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-12-08 12:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-07 10:13 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-07 11:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-08 11:55 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-08 12:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-08 14:31 ` Shark8
2019-12-08 21:58 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-09 22:47 ` Shark8
2019-12-07 23:24 ` Jere
2019-12-08 12:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-09 22:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-05 19:49 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-12-05 20:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-05 21:33 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-12-06 11:44 ` Lucretia
2019-12-06 20:23 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-06 20:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-06 20:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-06 21:55 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-12-07 10:19 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-07 12:05 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-12-08 11:59 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-12-06 8:57 ` AdaMagica
2019-12-06 9:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-12-06 15:30 ` Optikos
2019-12-07 3:34 ` Shark8
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