From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,eafb0c0f59b030c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:26:45 -0500 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Event mechanisms for GUI's References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <0bWdnaIh57IYYITYnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d@comcast.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:26:45 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.164.83.70 X-Trace: sv3-osI3ljxPbX9yDBDAFPQCmuyAxCigJWJcmczeJvabI6CMHtaCf2Np3Y74UPPFlPppW4t40Gi75REtWxQ!T40RupMJJwjN2YERnLzy0j3gzcywfHJX8H7Bc+assTdpPbpIhvxaEOQTzSD5WXBYHAMarAfZ0yHu!JecOX3zhuvjZ6g== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6765 Date: 2006-09-26T23:26:45-05:00 List-Id: >> a succinct abbreviation for a case statement on the type of Window, >>... >Sacrificing ease of reading for ease of writing. I beg to differ. It's the same abstraction argument that calls for writing a subroutine even when said subroutine is only called one place.