From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Gnat pretty printing
Date: 1998/12/15
Date: 1998-12-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <756f3f$pjn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36768419.79B1F29A@pwfl.com
In article <36768419.79B1F29A@pwfl.com>,
diespammer@pwfl.com (MDC) wrote:
> I used to hate the dangling "(" too. But I've grown to like it. The
> reason is that sticking the "(" with the first parameter seems to upset
> the regularness of it all. Somehow, it makes the first parameter
> different from the rest and I never could tell if it made sense to line
> up the parameter names or just indent the same amount:
>
> procedure Pop
> (Item : out Element_Type ;
> List : in out List_Type) ;
>
> vs
>
> procedure Pop
> (Item : out Element_Type ;
> List : in out List_Type) ;
You could do what some of my anal-retentive (and english-imparied) coworkers
took to doing: line up your commas or semicolons in the parameter lists with
the parentheses! eg:
procedure Pop
( Item : out Element_Type
; List : in out List_Type
; Flag : in Boolean
) ;
Another advantage of this that they touted is that a parameter may be added or
deleted at the w/o having to worry about dealing with the "no comma after the
last parameter" rule.
I was always quick to point out that they just moved the problem to the first
parameter, and that it is very un-english like. But their overly mathematical
minds just didn't care.
What I actually prefer myself is the same as above, but with the semicolons
where you'd expect them to be.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-09 0:00 Gnat pretty printing Matt Tyler
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-12 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-12-14 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-15 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-19 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Stephane Barbey
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-21 0:00 ` BARDIN Marc
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1998-12-10 0:00 ` okellogg
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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