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From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/06/06
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Yes, but possibly his project standardized on this alternate
representation. Then this would be conformity, good style and readable
:)

David Botton


Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <7j4nro$1ft@drn.newsguy.com>,
>   mike@nospam wrote:
> > which made my C/C++ more pleasent for me to work one, and more
> > readable.
> >
> 
> This kind of thing is VERY bad style. One of the primary
> things that you should consider in writing code is to make
> it pleasant for OTHERS to work on and read. Adopting
> non-standard idiosyncratic styles (your C/C++ example, if
> not intended as a joke, is an extreme example), is in the
> worst tradition of deliberate code obfuscation.
> 
> Conformity to both formal and informal standards in programming
> is an important part of good style.
> 
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