Re: Suffix _T for types found good

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Steve wrote:

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|""Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message |
|news:4899d2af$0$19731$4d3efbfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
|> 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 |
|> [..] |
| |
|I go with _Type too, [..]" |
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I prefer _Type instead of _T.

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|"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." |
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I do not remember having had seen this convention before. I like a
variant of it: a_buffer instead of aBuffer.
.

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