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Guest · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: Type naming conventions

Hi, everyone !

I noticed that the Standard Library sometimes appends a '_type' suffix
to the name of some types (e.g. vector<T>::size_type). And, I was
wondering about the exact rules (if any) govering this. For example, If
I want to follow the standard convention (if any) should I name a
coordinate type 'typedef float coord' or 'typedef float coord_type' ?

PS: Is there some paper defining all the naming conventions of the
standard library ?

Thanks In advance,

-- Anis Benyelloul

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