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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: some questions re. Ada/GNAT from a C++/GCC user
Date: 1996/03/30
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Date: 1996-03-30T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4jjul6$637@ra.nrl.navy.mil>,
Richard Pitre <pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
>I thing of "begin" and "end" are visual cues and I prefer them to eyeburner
>baggage like "{" and "}".

You miss the point.  C++ doesn't require "{" and "}" in this case -- the
case we're talking about is where no visual cues are necessary.  I can
understand that one might like "begin" better than "{", but this is a
case where C++ requires nothing at all, and Ada requires "declare",
"begin", and "end", for no good reason.

- Bob