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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/06/03
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In article <7j4nro$1ft@drn.newsguy.com>,
  mike@nospam wrote:
> which made my C/C++ more pleasent for me to work one, and more
> readable.
>

This kind of thing is VERY bad style. One of the primary
things that you should consider in writing code is to make
it pleasant for OTHERS to work on and read. Adopting
non-standard idiosyncratic styles (your C/C++ example, if
not intended as a joke, is an extreme example), is in the
worst tradition of deliberate code obfuscation.

Conformity to both formal and informal standards in programming
is an important part of good style.


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