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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada Recursion with strings
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:54:23 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> I agree that constants should be named, but even most strict coding
> standards allow several literals to be unnamed and the smallest set is
> 0 and 1. I think that 2 and 8 are on the border of acceptance too.

Yes, but not always so. In some cases you might like to have "additive
zero" instead of 0. After all literal is a name too. The difference is
whether the name is self explaining for the reader. The name 3.1415... is
worse than Pi, 8 is probably better than Octet_Size.

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