Re: ADA FUNCTIONS TO PROCEDURES

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <D5Aoy5.JCH@ss3.magec.com>,
James A. Krzyzanowski <jakrzy@ss5.magec.com> wrote:
>Henri Altarac (haltarac@rain.org) wrote:
>
>: In some (strange) coding standard I saw, they required that
>: function should not have any side effects. Procedure could.
>
>What's so strange about that?  At Magnavox, we DO have that as a coding
>standard!

I think he was implying it was strange because it required it in a
strict sense (?).  We have the "No side effect" rule in our standard
too, but it's immediately followed up with a statement that one MAY
break the rule if 1) it provides a more readable product, 2) it is a
"safe" usage ( a good example is the state of a random number
generator), and 3) It passes a code review of peers and at least one
"expert"


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