Re: can ada do this?

[Optikos <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 9:42:02 AM UTC-5, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Some Adaphiles yearn for a more-pandering-to-popularity AdaNG (Ada next generation) that, say, has
> > braces instead of BEGIN END, and numerous other shallow “features”.
> 
> The braces replace exactly the BEGIN END pair in *Pascal* (they are needed for framing more than one
> instruction). In Ada the BEGIN END pair is only for subprograms, or blocks (with or without DECLARE)
> but the IFs, LOOPs and CASEs don't need it. Basically groups of instructions don't need to be framed in
> Ada, so where would you put your braces ?... In the end you would have a mess with some braces and
> some "end loop" etc.

Answer:  exactly where C-family languages put them, as explained below.

Many of the Adaphiles who yearn for an AdaNG-with-braces to increase Ada's popularity as a more syntactically-C-family language would say that Ada's current syntax of branching constructs would be jettisoned when the {}s from C-family languages are adopted, so that AdaNG's branching constructs would be more C-esque.  They would say that now that C-family languages are commonplace for more than a generation, any attempt at readability that deviates from the C-family norm is itself less readable to these modern C-indoctrinated people.

(I've got news for those folk:  people are not rejecting Ada due to minor differences in the syntax of the Algol60-esque branching constructs.)