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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577df5d4a0e88785 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-12 18:07:13 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.218.236.179.MISMATCH!news!news.he.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!oleane.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Beard, Frank" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: constant string array Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:02:47 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 976672988 84570 137.194.161.2 (13 Dec 2000 02:03:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:03:08 +0000 (UTC) To: "'comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org'" Return-Path: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3033 Date: 2000-12-12T21:02:47-05:00 -----Original Message----- From: Robert Dewar [mailto:robert_dewar@my-deja.com] > That's a very entertaining confirmation that the thinking > here is imported from other languages, Well, I don't know who imported them, or why. And I don't really care. I'm just saying the parens don't bother me. I've been doing Ada since 1986, and have had numerous styles imposed on me. > seeing as Ada > *requires* the use of parentheses in the latter case, > so there is no question of giving advice in this case Yes, if you have an expression of "if a or else b and then c then". What I had in mind was more "if a or else b or else c then". Where a, b, and c are complex expressions or function calls, not just simple booleans. Frank