From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Type naming conventions: Any_Foo
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:23:45 +0100
Date: 2019-12-06T21:23:45+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qsedch$93u$3@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2714fecf-ad37-4922-8cab-2054b5592c22@googlegroups.com>
On 12/6/19 12:44 PM, Lucretia wrote:
>
> type All_Weapons is (Broadsword, Catapult, Bow_and_Arrow);
It has been demonstrated that the first few characters of an identifier are the
most important in distinguishing them; having lots of identifiers with the same
first few characters makes the code harder to read. So common prefixes are even
worse that suffixes.
--
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
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 [this message]
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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