Re: Type naming conventions: Any_Foo

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 12/7/19 1:57 AM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> Agreed. Ada.Containers all have a function Element that retrieves a (copy
> of) a single element object from the container. If the type was named
> element, what would this function be called? Similarly, some of the
> parameters are called Element (thus, Element : Element_Type in many
> parameter lists); those also would need alternate names.

At a conference long ago (probably in the Ada-83 days), a presenter claimed that 
well designed Ada has 90% of its operations named Put or Get. Get is an 
appropriate name for such an operation.

More specifically, good names may depend on the data structure. When the normal 
Get operation modifies the structure, as for queues and stacks, Peek is a good 
name. Value is a good name for most other cases.

Parameters of the type should be named Item.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata
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