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,c7d533acec91ae16 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95 Date: 1999/04/27 Message-ID: <37263B86.A0F82DE9@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471651374 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7g2qu4$ca4$1@usenet.rational.com> <7g3b5g$p92$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7g4ae3$hjh2@ftp.kvaerner.com> <7g4gjk$luq@drn.newsguy.com> <7g4n1q$vag$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3726039A.916FC0F3@easystreet.com> <1999Apr27.154659.1@eisner> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news14.ispnews.com 925252464 206.103.35.114 (Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:34:24 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:34:24 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Well, we've been over this before. I believe. The proper level of standardization of the optional elements of the program is the development organization, ie, one development shop <=> one style. There are optional elements wrt whitespace, case, comments, etc. I hope we don't ban these because any particular arrangement thereof might not exactly suit the reader; it is reasonable for an organization to prescribe a standard usage of these. One more optional element isn't going to hurt that much. I expect that multi-language projects will become more common, and that allowing the optional inclusion of some extraneous typography to make Ada more readable for those who don't do Ada continuously might be advantageous. I realize that you are justifiably frightened that somewhere, someplace, somebody will commit some deplorable vice totally beyond our control with optional empty parentheses after a function call not requiring parentheses, if these were allowed. Please let me know what that perversion is, so that I may salivate in longing depravity, even though the chance of getting such a libertine proposition past the powers that be of the Ada world is insignificant. Al Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article <3726039A.916FC0F3@easystreet.com>, Al Christians writes: > > > Couldn't the ()'s for a 0-parameter call be optional for clarity for > > those who think they enhance clarity? > > Certainly, so long as you guarantee that the text will automatically > change to suit the tastes of the person reading it, even from hardcopy > at the bus stop. For precedent see the dictionary reference to "Pooka" > in the play "Harvey". > > Until paper engineering catches up with literature, favoring readers > should mean standardised (..ized? :-) spellings. >