Re: if statements

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <200011091641.KAA05352@alonzo.tds-eagan.lmco.com>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:

> We rarely need to forgive Robert for
> technical errors, so I'm willing to cut him some slack here.

Ahem! Message 22/77 in my newsreader (posted by Ken Garlington
two days ago, first pointed out this obvious error). Not only
do I of course notice an error like this, but I also read the
entire thread before answering :-) :-)

As I made clear, I was showing how to rewrite the offered
solution (I quoted the original, and referred to the "above").
Since I was talking about style changes, I did not want to
confuse things by making a substantive change since I assumed
that everyone reading the thread was fully aware of it given
Ken's post!

By the way, you started a new thread (at least that's what
my newsreader says) instead of following up the previous
thread with this title (perhaps you are trying to foil those
of us who do use threaded newsreaders, and are careful to
read all messages in a thread before replying .... :-)

So, no slack needed!

> Another problem (as noted by some already) is that the
> original problem asked for an if statement, not a procedure,
> so we would need to trim Robert's solution down to the if
> statement.

Again, I was not trying to convince the doubting CLA hoardes
that Robert Dewar could have successfully handed in a correct
solution to this complex assignment, but rather I was making
style comments on the particular procedure previously posted :-)


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