Naming conventions for Icon objects

Here are some naming conventions I use for Icon objects:

Class names are capitalized (example: Tree). The class names are used only in comments.
The constructor for class ``Foo'' is generally called ``Foo_New'' but this is not a hard rule. Sometimes the constructor gets its information by parsing, in which case it might be called ``Foo_Parse''.
In most cases the state for an object is a record. For an object of class ``Foo,'' the type of the record would be ``fooTag''.
Method names use underbars between the words, e.g., ``Foo_New'' is the usual constructor name for class Foo.
Ordinary variables and field names use the Pascal internal capitalization convention, e.g., ``fooCount''.
Defined constants use the typical C convention of all caps: ``LOG_FILE_NAME''.

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