On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Brian Hulley wrote:
The problem here is that these names, presumably both to do with "Car", are not going to appear next to each other in any alphabetical listing (if there are other names too), whereas:
type CarBlue = ... type CarRed = ...
will. Thus the position of the adjective in natural language (in this case English) has to be ignored if you want a programming environment to display related things together.
You have still not mentioned the C legacy Float and Double. Where the first one is certainly an abbreviation for "floating point number", the second one abbreviates "double precision floating point number", but the abbreviations are quite different. What about Single and Double, or FloatSingle and FloatDouble, or FloatSP and FloatDP?