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From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" <see.signature@this.message>
Subject: Re: Language Design Mistakes (was "not intended...")
Date: 1997/05/13
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Wes said
> 
> <<If there is no conceivable reason for ever passing the value of an
> array to a subprogram or entry, or assigning to or from the array
> or a slice of it, then it will always be the only array of its type,
> so a superfluous type declaration is merely clutter _hindering_
> source readability.  (Some say the type name can be chosen for
> documentation value, but I don't see why that can't all go into
> the object name.)>>
> 
> OK, but just make sure you know the rules. If you think this way, it is
> all too easy to expect this to extend to a protected object that protects
> an array, this is a very common syntactic error. Or that it extends to
> a single field of a record that appears only once.

I am aware of those rules, but even if I was not, the compiler would
enforce them.  Hence, there is still no need for a coding standard
that people can use to "substitute for judgment."

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