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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.

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Jeff Carter
"Brave Sir Robin ran away."
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