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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/21 Message-ID: <36A775B3.666042D8@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435308083 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vhjf$nn9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vld9$qvg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <782rp0$kn6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6Oap2.16170$MW1.4028@news2.giganews.com> <783nnb$s9c@drn.newsguy.com> <784qvi$a0a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78549k$iqv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <785fo3$thj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A6F997.CA210C39@easystreet.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news6.ispnews.com 916943600 206.103.56.170 (Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:33:20 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:33:20 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > > > procedure Push > (Item : in Item_Type; > On : in out Stack_Type); > > into this: > > procedure Push > (Item : in Item_Type; > On : in out Stack_Type); > > What's the problem? If that's just a way to make sure that newly-written code complies with a standard before it gets stored, there is no problem. Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought that you were saying that the power of C-c C-f and similar automated features was sufficient to allow wide variation in working copies of code based on individual programmer preferences without any significant disadvantages. I don't think that's true; significant disadvantages are: 1) too much time wasted de-standardizing code after check-out, 2) too much time wasted re-standardizing code before check-in, 3) chance of error being introduced in 1) and 2), and 4) likelihood that after code has gone through automated standardization, it will not be exactly identical to previous standardized version, leading to many false deltas found by diff. Al