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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:17:03 +0100
From: Lionel Draghi <Lionel.nospam.Draghi@Ada-France.org>
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Subject: Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting.
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Date: 2006-02-20T09:17:04+01:00
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Stephen Leake a �crit :

> Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:
>>Between subprograms I prefer the "GNAT style" header box:
>>
>>  ----------------------
>>  -- Process_Whatever --
>>  ----------------------
>>
>>  procedure Process_Whatever is
>>  ...
>>
>>Far clearer than 2 blank lines IMHO.
> 
> 
> Yuck - a waste of valuable screen space. That's what syntax
> colorization is for, along with navigation keys (page forward goes to
> next subprogram).

I agree.
Sam's point about this style (some weeks ago in cla) was to put an 
emphasis on procedure start to ease reading the code in simple text 
editor. I don't think that vi or such are still used enough to justify 
such a "waste of valuable screen space".

I think most people are using emacs/gps/etc., have no problem in code 
navigation.

Anyway, there are several way to put emphasis on operations without 
wasting screen space, and without duplicating the procedure name in the 
comment, for example:

procedure Process_Whatever is
-- ----------------------------------------------------------

or

-- ----------------------------------------------------------
procedure Process_Whatever is

etc.

And no, this is not "my taste", but an arguable scientific point
:-)

-- 
Lionel Draghi