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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3BF05337.75BE0A18@san.rr.com>, Darren New says...
> >
> >Darren New wrote:
> >    function "&" (Left, Right : Element) return List;
> >        -- O(1)
> 
> I much prefer pre-comments to post-comments. The reason is that you read them
> before you get to the source, rather than after you have already tried to read
> the source and are perhaps already confused and/or misled. Forewarned is
> forearmed. :-)

I prefer post-comments, because they can refer to things by name without
breaking the linear flow of reading Ada and without having to duplicate
information given by the code.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter