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Nature of Distinctions

The name of an item should only contain information useful in distinguishing it from similar items. There is little point, for instance, in adding ‘LIB’ to the end of names of libraries to indicate that they are libraries, because there are no other objects on the same level whose type needs to be distinguished: every single library name would have LIB on the end of it. On the other hand, it is useful to include an indication of an object’s attribute in its name in order to distinguish it from other objects of the same type but different attribute; for instance two similar programs of different types UXCHDTR (RPG) UXCHDTC (CLP).