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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f4d16c4ee371eb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeff Carter Subject: Re: Comment from the trenchs Date: 2000/04/13 Message-ID: <38F5012C.3A78E790@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 610444863 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38DF7F38.8D656ABD@lmtas.lmco.com> <38DFB0BC.9FF72EFC@callnetuk.com> <87u2hq857e.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E2A4A4.E59E997C@research.canon.com.au> <8ckfsp$ab8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38F495F5.C54559C6@lmco.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 955584349 63.10.53.81 (Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:05:49 PDT) Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jrcarter@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:05:49 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Brantley wrote: > discussion. Every week I have to look at Ada code I have never seen > before. Having situations where array access looks just like subprogram > calls is a BAD thing. It decreases the readability of the source, makes and also > The same thing is true about optional parenthesis on subprogram calls > taking no parameters, although to a much less degree. Parentheses on subprogram calls with no actual parameters are not optional, they are illegal. Perhaps when you have learned the language your opinion of parentheses for indexing will change. -- Jeff Carter "Son of a silly person." Monty Python & the Holy Grail