From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Using ARRAYS for grade reporting?
Date: 1998/04/19
Date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6hdfoc$h6i@lotho.delphi.com> (raw)
It would be nice to distinguish between fact and opinion in messages.
>(remembe that the use of String here is just plain wrong :-))
This is a fact about the Ada language and Ada compilers.
>But another point is that the use of plurals for the field names is
>styulistically incorrect. The field names should be Name and Grade
This is an opinion of the author (which I share), not a fact.
Unless of course somebody has actually done research conclusively
demonstrating that using plural field names substantially increases
the error rate, or does something else bad, to programs.
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1998-04-19 0:00 tmoran [this message]
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Using ARRAYS for grade reporting? Robert Dewar
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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1998-04-19 0:00 ` GOTHIC SIN
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1998-04-18 0:00 Sam
1998-04-19 0:00 ` GOTHIC SIN
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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