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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Type naming conventions: Any_Foo
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 11:13:20 +0100
Date: 2019-12-07T11:13:20+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qsfu02$j84$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qsee2v$par$1@gioia.aioe.org>

On 12/6/19 9:35 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> No, it would be misleading. Element must be reserved for instances of the type. 
> They are actual elements. The type of an element is not an element, these are 
> two totally different things.

As these are generic data structures, there are no instances of the type. 
Parameters should be called Item (the library commonly uses New_Item).

> I am required to. There must be always be two types in a GUI, one referential 
> type and one implementation type. 

As I have presented here in the past a proof of concept of a GUI library that 
uses no access types, this is demonstrably false.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata
and expecting some sort of improvement."
Drew Olbrich
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-07 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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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