Re: Learning Ada but missing the basics?

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
>> Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
>>> You'll see that on those projects the code quality and style is uniform
>>> in all the sources. This makes a project easier to maintain by a group
>>> of people. No one own (by using weird style for example where other
>>> developers do not feel comfortable) a part of the code. This to say that
>>> there is no ONE good style but most importantly a style must be
>>> followed, uniformity is more important to me.
>> 
>> In this regard, gnat style switches are truly useful. I find I've added
>> quite a few over time to my defaults.
> 
> Which ones of the GNAT style switches do you think have greater
> influence on your programs' stability and design? The ones
> that criticize typographic qualities, or those that comment
> on the qualities of the non-white code?

I couldn't point to a precise effect, but I like the overall result. In one
hand, nice whitespacing goes a long way into readability. I know people that
dismiss certain kinds of whitespace/comments on the basis that a good editor
highlights what's important, but I'm not totally in this camp.

I have also an itching for the little (many times not useful) details which
borders in obsessiveness, so consistent capitalization (on the fly by the
editor and then checked) saves me a lot of uneasiness and time. Admittedly,
this is a personal problem.

It will not come as a surprise that I like gnatpp a lot.