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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: 1996/04/01
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Date: 1996-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4xn34w5i73.fsf@leibniz.enst-bretagne.fr>,
Laurent Guerby <Laurent.Guerby@enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
>   If you follow  the  GNU Coding Standard,  here  is how you  have to
>declare (indent) an inner block (loop, if ...) :
>
>   {
>      int local;
>
>      foo (local);
>      bar (global);
>   }
>
>   declare
>      Local : Integer;
>   begin
>      Foo (Local);
>      Bar (Global);
>   end;
>
>   Hey, the  number of line  is the same !  

No, the number of lines is not the same.  In C++, the curly braces are
usually there *anyway*, because you're inside a loop or an if statement
or something.

>...Cool isn't it ;-). Ok, you
>type more charaters.

Shrug.  I don't care about the number of keystrokes -- Emacs types it
all automatically, anyway.  I was complaining that the extra verbosity
reduces readability.  Verbosity is good when it adds useful information
to the code.  It's bad when it merely clutters the code.

- Bob