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From: "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 9 Mar 2005 06:32:25 -0800
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Peter Hermann wrote:
> In comp.lang.ada Jerry Coffin <jcoffin@taeus.com> wrote:
> > rarely do things like parenthesizing a+(b*c). Even those who argue
most
> > strongly for explicitness generally agree that this would be silly,
at
> > least in "obvious" cases like the one above.
>
> No, it is not silly.
> It shows professionality, even when not in doubt.
> There is no compelling reason to learn those many priority rules
> for Ada expressions to achieve secondary bulk knowledge.

Gosh, that just doesn't seem very professional to me -- after all, it's
missing the comments to remind the reader that '+' does addition, '*'
does multiplication, parentheses can be used to override the default
precedence, 'a', 'b' and 'c' are variables (and what their types are)
and so on.

To be both professional and efficient, how about if we just paste in
the entire text of the LRM before each statement? That would leave
nobody room for _any_ doubt about what the code means. Oh...well,
you're probably right: to go with, we'd better paste in the entire text
of a real dictionary, and (just in case) a complete set of books
teaching how to read English. The people you're obviously targeting as
reading the code undoubtedly need that -- after all, every word in
"Language Reference Manual" has three whole syllables!

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.