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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: defining functions
Date: 1999/11/25
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In article <81gthb$kej$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>,
  "Riyaz Mansoor" <s800032@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>    function  "=="  (Stack1, Stack2 : in Stack) return Boolean;

> (i find the single equal sign really irritating!!!)


One of the things that is important when you come to a new
language is to understand the style and conform to it. Nothing
would be more horrible (*) than seeing == used in an Ada
program, and it is in this case an excellent thing that the
compiler prevents this abuse.

(*) well I guess a comparable thing would be to see an Ada
programmer writing C, and starting off with

#define begin {
#define end   }

etc.

Unfortunately the C preprocessor WOULD allow this appalling
abuse of the macro processor.


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