Re: Naming Conventions?

On Apr 26, 10:25 am, Marshall <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 6:39 pm, David BL <davi..._at_iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 24, 12:17 pm, Marshall <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Also bad: using the "-info" suffix. *Everything* in the computer is
> > > info!
>
> > You have a very liberal usage of "info".
>
> Not at all!
>
> > I would say, for example,
> > that a thread pool has state but I wouldn't call it info (or data).
>
> Well, my point was not to use "-Info" as a suffix; it appears you
> agree, yes?

Yes

> I would be interested to hear what you consider to be the distinction
> between state and data.

Unfortunately I don't have anything particularly formal. In the following I'll use /object/ in a generic sense (ie not specifically in the sense of OO) : I would say by definition state can't exist independently of the object that has that state. By contrast data is not usually associated with the state of any particular object.

The distinction is difficult to pin down because overlap occurs in the two concepts when data happens to actually represent the state of some object. Received on Thu Apr 26 2007 - 14:40:08 CEST