From: Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>
Subject: Why no named case statements?
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:06:12 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-09-04T16:06:12-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5233a224-07c1-4a7b-906e-b4cb8e193c85@y42g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
Ada allows optional names for loops and declare blocks but not for
case or if statetements. Why not, since these are also multi-line
statements that terminate with an 'end" keyword? I sometimes use loop
names to clearly indicate the purpose of the loop and have wished I
could do the same for case statements, e.g.,
Decide_This:
case Some_Variable is
...
end case Decide_This;
or similarly for long if statements:
Decide_That:
if Whatever then
...
end if Decide_That:
Such names could also be used in the outline view of an IDE like
Eclipse to support quick location of the named entity.
I suppose there was some rationale so I'm curious what it was.
- Britt
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2009-09-04 23:06 Britt Snodgrass [this message]
2009-09-04 23:47 ` Why no named case statements? Adam Beneschan
2009-09-05 0:29 ` Robert A Duff
2009-09-05 0:49 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-09-05 1:04 ` Robert A Duff
2009-09-05 8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-06 12:44 ` Robert A Duff
2009-09-06 17:46 ` Britt
2009-09-07 7:27 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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