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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f127842852d2f03a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-21 19:27:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A1B3CEC.4B576A3B@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: About conversions References: <8vb0h9$1ou$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8vbfds$dih$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ve71q$meh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A1AB12E.8780B626@home.com> <8vept5$814$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8vetq2$bkb$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:27:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.194.151 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 974863623 24.141.194.151 (Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:27:03 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:27:03 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2349 Date: 2000-11-22T03:27:03+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <8vept5$814$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > Robert Dewar wrote: > (talking about converting actual "out" parameters) > > If you use this feature, you will most definitely confuse > > the reader, especially in the case of an out parameter, > > precisely because the syntax is so confusing. Note that > > ...snip... > You do have a point about it being confusing to some beginners. I'd > imagine its particularly bad for those who are comming from another > language that doesn't allow this kind of thing. But I don't think you > can say that its an inarguable maintanence problem. It can be argued > either way. I agree. In fact, there are a great many things that will be confusing to beginners ;-) Are we really concerned about confused beginners? > -- > T.E.D. > > http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg