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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-12 08:47:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8E3110.F36F2DC8@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: code partitioning (was: Future with Ada) References: <3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net> <3C7D1C89.2000803@home.com> <3C7E7CAD.7070504@mail.com> <3C7FB9D2.D9C6E055@boeing.com> <3C81DF1F.9000503@mail.com> <3C83A112.6080302@mail.com> <3C84223C.A356F466@adaworks.com> <3C853A04.34826F39@despammed.com> <3C8D0D70.BB09F3DA@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:47:12 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1015951656 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:47:36 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:47:36 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21121 Date: 2002-03-12T11:47:12-05:00 List-Id: > I *think* we're on the same wavelength. Yes, I agree. No splitting things up except on "logical" boundaries so that the parts can have meaningful names. > And I would find attempts to go through gyrations to make this shorter just > to fit some kind of "Don't make a case statement longer than twentysomething > lines" rule a bit silly. My original illustration was to show a Without actually endorsing this, here's a sort of borderline situation: case Animal is when Horse | Tiger | Elephant | Whale | Mouse | Dog | Gorilla | Platypus | Koala | Dingo => Classify_Mammal (Animal); when Lizard | Snake | Alligator | Tortoise => Classify_Reptile (Animal); ...... when others => Classify_Some_Really_Wierd_Thing (Animal); -- gratuitous demo of end case (Animal); -- yet another way of -- naming a case statement -- to bring it back to the original topic -- now that I've updated the subject line :-) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau