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,e94a7e4f6f888766 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: Comments (was: Self-referential types) Date: 1999/10/25 Message-ID: <381477C9.E1388FF3@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 540355279 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7ttb4a$8mq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3802f2db_2@news1.prserv.net> <3803B5E3.F96A6DD4@mitre.org> <3803c8bc_2@news1.prserv.net> <3804E7E0.6A0265FB@mitre.org> <38077EB3.E6911567@mitre.org> <380CA5AC.82499FE2@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <7um9ji$dor$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <380F2BA5.1EEE15F1@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <7ur1gn$q5h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7urumg$cqj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 940865492 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:31:32 CDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:31:32 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > One more reason for the guideline is that I want the guidlines to provide > information, that may otherwise be lacking. So I prefer giving an exmaple of > a standard - even if it is not desribed completly, just so that the students > will have a better grasp of what I am talking about. Just make sure it's a GOOD example. Principle of technical writing: When given text which tells what to do, accompanied by an example, many people will follow the example even if it is the opposite of the text.