From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !!
Date: 1999/10/22
Date: 1999-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3810a21c_3@news1.prserv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccwvsk1ul4.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wccwvsk1ul4.fsf@world.std.com> , Robert A Duff
<bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> My main complaint about block statements is that they're verbose: they
> introduce three extra lines of code which don't impart any useful
> information to the reader of the code. Why can't I just declare a local
> variable in any statement list? And they introduce an extra (bogus)
> level of indentation.
I agree completely. Especially as declarations that include an
initialization expression begin to blur the difference between a
declaration and an (executable) statement.
I think you can do that in C++, just declare an object anywhere you
want. Very nice.
--
The new standards [for science curricula in Kansas] do not forbid the
teaching of evolution, but the subject will no longer be included in
statewide tests for evaluating students--a virtual guarantee, given the
realities of education, that this central concept of biology will be
diluted or eliminated, thus reducing courses to something like chemistry
without the periodic table, or American history without Lincoln.
Stephen Jay Gould, Time, 23 Aug 1999
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-15 0:00 Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !! Chango Cho
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-10-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-10-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Paul Duquennoy
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Stephane Barbey
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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