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From: Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:41:30 +0200
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Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> On 04/26/2012 12:43 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote:
>>
>> I like the Perl use of 'next' and 'last' to influence looping.
>
> If you're going to use Perl, then by definition you don't care about readability.

That's a bit silly. I happen to write very readable Perl; given that
other people have no problems maintaining or even extending my code, I
can say that.

Sure, Perl chooses to favour the writer over the reader, but the 'Perl
is line noise, ha ha ha' joke wears a bit thin.

And even if this were true in general, it still doesn't make specific
points untrue. The use of statement modifiers combined with loop control
constructs make for elegant, terse, yet readable code IMO. Even if the
rest of the program *is* line noise.

There is no reason why one should dismiss a construct out of hand
because of dislike of a language. People who complain about Ada's
'bondage and discipline' nature are just as stupid, because they don't
realise that Ada's elegance makes following the strictures of the
language almost painless.

In the end, using if blocks and a goto is the same thing as using a
dedicated loop control construct. I just find it an affront to my
impression of Ada as an elegant language. In my personal opinion, it
just *feels* clunky.

Mart

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