From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-12 14:50:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!pln-e!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn From: Vector..@ Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Date: 12 Oct 2001 14:23:22 -0700 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] Message-ID: <9q7n0a02mu2@drn.newsguy.com> References: <9q25ec0248o@drn.newsguy.com> <9q421v0bbg@drn.newsguy.com> <9q4a37$npd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9q4e59018lm@drn.newsguy.com> <20011011191946.K11745-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> <9q7fr3$7hu2@news.cis.okstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-436.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Direct Read News 2.90 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14439 Date: 2001-10-12T14:23:22-07:00 List-Id: In article <9q7fr3$7hu2@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David says... > >? Clarity is one of the real arguments for this syntax, so that you >don't make a mistake retyping the element on the left in these >situations, and so it's easy to tell on reading that the left part is the >same as the right part. exactly. I do find that reading 'i++' is clearer than 'i := i +1', specially when "i" is a complicated expression. Ada programmers think that more words makes things clearer, but too much words makes things less clear actually. A balance is good. Not too terse, and not too verbose. Mathematics had its most advances when symbols were discovered. (these days we seem to have run out of new symbols for mathematicans to use :)