* Obfuscated Ada
@ 1997-04-30 0:00 claveman
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From: claveman @ 1997-04-30 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Whenever questions of style arise, particularly the issue of "best"
style, Robert Dewar usually reiterates his claim that a particular style
is less important than that everyone use the same style. I just had an
experience that illustrates the validity of this claim, at least periph-
erally. Maybe the real issue here is the confusion that can be caused
by using a wildly unusual style.
I was doing a grep-like search on some Ada code that I'm unfamiliar
with and the following line was displayed:
procedure REQUEST_BLOCK (BLOCK : in CHARACTER) is RETURN16 : INT16;
I stared at that line for quite some time, trying to figure out
what it was. I began to suspect the compilers that allowed it, but
since one of them was DEC Ada a compiler error seemed unlikely. It even
took me a few seconds seeing the line in context before the penny fi-
nally dropped.
Charlie
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