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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dabd2d2ffbcf1daa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Scott Ingram Subject: Re: Exiting from a function or procedure Date: 2000/04/24 Message-ID: <39044610.453AF328@silver.jhuapl.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 614965716 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8ds3qe$q2d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@houston.jhuapl.edu X-Trace: houston.jhuapl.edu 956581392 21787 128.244.80.107 (24 Apr 2000 13:03:12 GMT) Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Apr 2000 13:03:12 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-24T13:03:12+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > b) use decent names for things, not abbreviations. I cannot > even guess what Izq means. One might guess that Der is > deriviative, but if so, then spell it out. It's a bit more > work to write, but in Ada, the cardinal rule is to write > code that can be easily read. A decent editor that does > name completion can help if you are a slow typist :-) > Izq, short for Izquierda (Left,) and Der, short for Derecho (Right.) While these abbreviations are fairly common in Spanish and Portuguese, they do make it extremely difficult for others to read the code. -- Scott Ingram Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory