From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: short-circuit control forms (& 'long names are doom')
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:32:08 -0500
Date: 2001-06-21T13:32:08-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B323DA8.629DF632@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B322CCB.321225B6@home.com
> > Looking at the GNAT 3.13p source code, I count about 5000 occurrences of
> > 'and then' and only about 400 occurrences of 'and' not followed by
> > 'then'. (This count is very approximate.) It seems that the GNAT
> > policy is to use 'and then' by default.
>
> Before arriving at that assumption, did you examine how many of those
> cases NEEDED to be that way? Since you didn't report a count of those,
> then I think we can safely assume that you didn't check that.
On top of that, with no disrespect intended toward the fine folks at
ACT, it would be rather foolish for us to base our company standard
on the behavior of one company (whether or not that behavior
complies with that company's standard). Especially when that company
specializes in a different application domain than we do.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-21 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-20 19:23 short-circuit control forms James A. Krzyzanowski
2001-06-20 20:15 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-20 20:47 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-20 22:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-21 0:45 ` Al Christians
2001-06-21 15:06 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-21 15:46 ` Al Christians
2001-06-21 18:28 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-21 18:51 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-22 12:17 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-06-22 14:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-06-22 20:58 ` Robert Dewar
2001-06-22 21:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-22 22:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-06-23 0:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-06-23 17:34 ` Simon Wright
2001-06-26 15:48 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-25 17:00 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-21 0:13 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-06-21 0:55 ` Al Christians
2001-06-21 12:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-06-21 15:02 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-21 14:24 ` short-circuit control forms (& 'long names are doom') Paul Graham
2001-06-21 17:20 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-06-21 18:32 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2001-06-21 23:18 ` Charles Hixson
2001-06-22 1:01 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-06-22 3:10 ` DuckE
2001-06-22 15:46 ` Wes Groleau
2001-06-22 19:02 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-22 19:16 ` Ted Dennison
2001-06-22 20:53 ` Robert Dewar
2001-06-22 20:43 ` Robert Dewar
2001-06-22 22:34 ` Jerry Petrey
2001-06-25 14:30 ` Marin David Condic
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