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Subject: Re: Type naming conventions: Any_Foo
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On 12/6/19 10:55 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 2019-12-06 22:11, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>> On 12/5/19 10:33 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>>
>>>     Weapon : Weapon_Id;
>>>
>>> The variable Weapon does not represent a Weapon; it represents an identifier 
>>> of a Weapon, so the name Weapon is IMO a little misleading.
>>
>> Obviously there are no weapons in the S/W; there are only bit patterns that 
>> you have decided to interpret in various ways. But if you're modeling the 
>> problem space and it contains something called Weapon, then your software had 
>> better have something named Weapon it in, too.
> 
> Agreed.

And obviously the thing in the software named Weapon contains a bit pattern that 
you interpret as identifying the actual Weapon in the problem space. In other 
words, Weapon contains a Weapon identifier, and the declaration is not 
misleading at all.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata
and expecting some sort of improvement."
Drew Olbrich
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