From: Samuel Mize <smize@link.com>
Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract)
Date: 1997/09/12
Date: 1997-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34196B5F.458F@link.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.874035031@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Samuel Mize says
>
> <<As several people (including Don) have pointed out, if you try to
> read an Ada unit with a lot of sub-procedures, you wind up reading
> it from the end backward.>>
>
> Once again, I do not know what this is about.
It's about the claim that "dependency ordering" increases human
comprehension of a package or subprogram. If we in Ada usually
defeat the default dependency ordering, for clarity, that's
hardly a stellar recommendation for its ability to increase human
comprehension.
Perhaps a better way to phrase my statement would have been:
An Ada unit -- package or subprogram -- that contains internal
declarations is read from the end backward UNLESS you use an
explicit idiom that defeats the "dependency ordering." This is
especially true for a subprogram that contains other subprograms,
since the first code executed has to be at the end of the unit.
>I can imagine someone
> deliberately ordering a program so that it has to be read from the
> end backward, but I thankfully never encountered an Ada program
> written this way, and the suggestion that this is somehow required
> in Ada is entirely bogus.
True. It is not required.
However, if a package contains a lot subprograms, it requires a
specific effort (pre-declaring the procedures) to enable
human-oriented rather than compiler-oriented ordering.
Sam Mize
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1997-08-28 0:00 ` Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Tucker Taft
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <EFqDC8.342@ecf.toronto.edu>
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
[not found] ` <EFyrH2.7z2@syd.csa.com.au>
1997-09-04 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-05 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-10 0:00 ` One pass compilation? W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Nick Leaton
1997-09-10 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Code ordering Steve Furlong
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-05 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-04 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Don Harrison
[not found] ` <340fdb9f.0@news.uni-ulm.de>
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Lee Webber
1997-09-15 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize [this message]
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Frederic Guerin
1997-09-08 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-09-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
[not found] ` <dewar.873826570@merv>
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-04 0:00 ` Erik Ernst
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-01 0:00 ` Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)
1997-09-15 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Owen Fellows
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1997-09-12 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-09 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Owen Fellows
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Bill Foote
1997-09-06 0:00 Ell
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
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1997-09-01 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-08-07 0:00 Safety-critical development in Ada and Eiffel Ken Garlington
1997-08-12 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-08-25 0:00 ` Design by Contract Bertrand Meyer
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1997-08-26 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
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[not found] ` <dewar.872631036@merv>
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1997-08-27 0:00 ` Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Bertrand Meyer
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1997-08-27 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-09-02 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Don Harrison
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1997-09-04 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Matt Austern
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-04 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-05 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)
1997-09-10 0:00 ` John Viega
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1997-09-05 0:00 ` Franck Arnaud
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-08-28 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-08-28 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-08-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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1997-08-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1997-08-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-30 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1997-08-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-01 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
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1997-08-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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