Re: Suffix _T for types found good

"Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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amado.alves@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Regarding "_T" vs. "_Type" I am convinced the former is better but I
have to leave the advocacy for later. Or for others ;-)

Personally I prefer _Type. Yes it is more verbose but it follows the
convention of using fully spelled out words for things. For access types I
have used _Pointer. As in

type Integer_Pointer is access all Integer;

It mostly seems to work for me.

I go with _Type too, but for pointers I go with _Acc.

For years the convention at work (I'm not sure where it came from) was to
precede type names with a lower case "a" or "an" so a declaration would be
something like:

index : anIndex;
buffer : aBuffer;

Since I used the convention for years I can say it helped readability a lot,
but every once in a while I did run into cases where I would want a variable
name to start with a or an and would have to choose something different, or
accept some "different" looking code.

Regards,
Steve


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