I've read Nick Hodges 's chapter on generics from his upcoming book.

I've read Nick Hodges 's chapter on generics from his upcoming book.

He likes to refer to generics as parameterized type, which makes a lot of sense if you think about it, never gave it a second thought until now.

As you know, in Delphi(and Pascal in general), we have a convention to name types(except for the primitive ones: byte, boolean, integer, string, etc.) starting with capital T.
Now, for some reason, the above holds true for generics, but I have a strange feeling that it's a bit misleading, a generic isn't a true type until you specialize it, i.e.:

// TIntegerList is a true type
type TIntegerList = class (TList);

or

// variable type "specialized inline"
var LIntegerList: TList;

Maybe, we should come up with a convention for naming generics, let's say capital G -- some might argue that G should be reserved for "global" variables, to which I agree -- or maybe, just drop the T and ta-da!!

Let's drop the T for a second and see how it goes:

type TIntegerList = class (List);

or

var LIntegerList: List);

Note: I've been using generics for some time now -- not to the level some of you used them -- and never had any issue with the T naming convention for generics, however, I thought it would be interesting to see what you guys think and have to say.

What do you think?
How do you name your generic types?