EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 4.2.5
Page no. : | 4-6
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Comment : | Regarding the requirement in item (c) "In large systems where subsystems tend to be developed independently, duplicate names may be used where the scope of the name is unique within the application. Names should always be unique where modules are shared; and", names do not have to be exclusively unique in an application. A name like "count" will get re-used many times in a large application. There is also a need to address an exemption of names imposed by third party COTS libraries used by the application. These externally imposed names may not form to the standard's conventions, yet they are part of the COTS library and must be used. Proposed change: Remove the language "where the scope of the name is unique within the application."