From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Self-referential types
Date: 1999/10/21
Date: 1999-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7untko$js0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7un1me$6jm$1@wanadoo.fr
In article <7un1me$6jm$1@wanadoo.fr>,
"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> LL : Natural ; -- this is the line length
>
> in favour of the (comment-less):
> Line_Length : Natural;
Yes, but I am guessing that in context I would not like EITHER
of these alternatives, instead probably what is needed is
something like:
Line_Length : Natural;
-- This is the length of the current line, not including the
-- terminating control characters. It is set each time a new
-- command is processed, and reflects the length of the command
-- after stripping trailing spaces.
Well the details will vary, but you get the idea, comments very
often need to express far more detail than can be contained in
a reasonable length name. If anything, the name Line_Length is
more dangerous than LL in this regard, since it can seduce the
programmer into thinking that documentation is not required.
I actually prefer a rule that says that comments should be
independent of names. Yes, that might lead to overcommenting
in some rare instances, but that's a disease that I can put
up with much better than the serious epidemic of under
commenting :-)
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1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7u86su$o5v$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <slrn80fl9f.68j.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Comments Georg Bauhaus
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Comments Ehud Lamm
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Comments Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Jerry van Dijk
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Ted Dennison
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-23 0:00 ` M.
[not found] ` <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.991021191504.30582K-100000@pluto.mscc.huji. <381477c9.e1388ff3@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Self-referential types Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Michel DELARCHE
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-12 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-14 0:00 ` Multiple Inheritance in Ada 95 [was Re: Self-referential types] Tucker Taft
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
[not found] ` <3802597B.9205AEE8@averstar.com>
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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