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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Localized Variable Declaration
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:32:35 -0700
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> Hmmm! I don't think incompetent typing skills are a good
> argument to introduce. Most people in fact will type
> the shifted {} faster. I can quite believe that some
> would type it slower (for instance if they do not have
> finger memory of where the curly keys are), but in any
> case speed of typing is a 100% irrelevant argument when
> it comes to discussingt the design of Ada.

Also, when using an industrial-strength editor, one can
configure the keyboard to reverse the  [ with the { and
the ] with the }.   This is certainly faster than typing
begin and end.    That being said, I dislike the fact that
the {  } in the C family of languages does not let me
name them so I can easily detect their relationship to
each other.   For example,  I would like to be able to
do what I can do in Ada with begin ... end.   Consider,

                   Block_Name:
                   {
                        some C code here
                   } Block_Name;

and have it detected and verified by the compiler.

Richard Riehle